RHSA-2024:1544 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: dnsmasq security and bug fix update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · March 28, 2024
Updated · April 30, 2026
Topic
An update for dnsmasq is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
The dnsmasq packages contain dnsmasq, a lightweight DNS (Domain Name Server) forwarder and DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server.
Security Fixes:
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dnsmasq: default maximum EDNS.0 UDP packet size was set to 4096 but should be 1232 (CVE-2023-28450)
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dnsmasq: bind9: KeyTrap - Extreme CPU consumption in DNSSEC validator (CVE-2023-50387)
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dnsmasq: bind9: Preparing an NSEC3 closest encloser proof can exhaust CPU resources (CVE-2023-50868)
Bug Fix:
- Segmentation fault occurs in dnsmasq-2.79-26 in RHEL8
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.