CVE-2021-3448

Publication date 8 April 2021

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

4.0 · Medium

Score breakdown

A flaw was found in dnsmasq in versions before 2.85. When configured to use a specific server for a given network interface, dnsmasq uses a fixed port while forwarding queries. An attacker on the network, able to find the outgoing port used by dnsmasq, only needs to guess the random transmission ID to forge a reply and get it accepted by dnsmasq. This flaw makes a DNS Cache Poisoning attack much easier. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
dnsmasq 24.10 oracular
Fixed 2.85-1ubuntu1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 2.85-1ubuntu1
23.10 mantic
Fixed 2.85-1ubuntu1
23.04 lunar
Fixed 2.85-1ubuntu1
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 2.85-1ubuntu1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2.85-1ubuntu1
21.10 impish
Fixed 2.85-1ubuntu1
21.04 hirsute
Fixed 2.84-1ubuntu2.1
20.10 groovy
Fixed 2.82-1ubuntu1.3
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.80-1.1ubuntu1.4
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2.79-1ubuntu0.4
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of ESM support, was needed

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Notes

mdeslaur

This issue only affects dnsmasq in non-default configurations where the server=<address>@<interface> option is used. In those environments, this issue can be prevented by disabling cache by also using a cache-size=0 configuration option. For the dnsmasq instance used by Network-Manager, it is not vulnerable to this issue as Ubuntu disables caching by default. (See Update-dnsmasq-parameters.patch in the network-manager package)

Patch details

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Package Patch details
dnsmasq

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 4.0 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

References

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