Summary

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2017-453

Component : EDNS0

Revision : 2.0: Final

A memory exhaustion flaw was found in dnsmasq in the EDNS0 code. An attacker could send crafted DNS packets which would trigger memory allocations which would never be freed, leading to unbounded memory consumption and eventually a crash. This issue only affected configurations using one of the options: add-mac, add-cpe-id, or add-subnet.

Affected Products

No Brocade Fibre Channel technology products from Broadcom are currently known to be affected by this vulnerability.

Workaround

There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

Note

Brocade Manageability products are not vulnerable. However, since the environement that runs the products is not under Brocade's control, Brocade recommends Customers to apply recommendation from the vendors.

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