CVE-2026-12969
CVE-2026-12969: 1 tracked advisory record across Red Hat. Compare vendor sources and published fix guidance.
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1 advisory- Advisory severityMedium5.3
Medium [CVE-2026-12969] Dnsmasq: dnsmasq: out-of-bounds read in find_soa due to missing extrabytes validation
CVE-2026-12969Source published Source updated
An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in dnsmasq's find_soa() function in src/rfc1035.c. When parsing NS section records, extract_name() is called with extrabytes=0, failing to validate that 10 additional bytes exist for fixed-length DNS record fields. A remote attacker controlling a DNS zone can exploit this via a crafted NXDOMAIN response to cause a 10-byte heap out-of-bounds read, potentially accessing stale data from prior transactions. Red Hat rates this issue as Low impact. While the vulnerability is remotely triggerable without authentication, the 10-byte out-of-bounds read stays within the over-allocated packet buffer in default dnsmasq configurations (1035 bytes of headroom beyond the logical packet boundary). A crash is not achievable in practice, and the potential…
- Affected products in this advisory
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat package: dnsmasq
- Source-reported affected versions
- Affected-version details not available in this record.
- Source-reported fixed versions
- No fixed-version detail extracted. This does not mean no fix exists.
- Mitigation guidance
- Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability. The fix is available in dnsmasq 2.93rc1 and later.
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