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LIN1023-23456 : Security Advisory - dnsmasq - CVE-2026-2291

Created: May 12, 2026    Updated: May 14, 2026
Found In Version: 10.23.30.2
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 23
Component/s: Userspace

Description

dnsmasqs extract_name() function can be abused to cause a heap buffer overflow, allowing an attacker to inject false DNS cache entries, which could result in DNS lookups to redirect to an attacker-controlled IP address, or to cause a DoS.