CVE-2006-2017
Dnsmasq 2.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a DHCP client broadcast reply request.
02 Description
Dnsmasq 2.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a DHCP client broadcast reply request.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.83% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 78.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2006-04-25 10:00Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 17:35Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-04-25
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 937d81477eb57b3782ddd16585c734598975cb98937ffef24e3867b2fdabd0fb
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com19760http://secunia.com/advisories/19760
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-1494http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1494
- www.osvdb.org24884http://www.osvdb.org/24884
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comdnsmasq-dhcp-dos(26005)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26005
- www.securityfocus.com17662http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17662
- thekelleys.org.ukhttp://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/CHANGELOG
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- dnsmasq Fixed in 2.30-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- dnsmasq Fixed in 2.30-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- dnsmasq Fixed in 2.30-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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