CVE-2021-45957

Publication date 1 January 2022

Last updated 4 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Dnsmasq 2.86 has a heap-based buffer overflow in answer_request (called from FuzzAnswerTheRequest and fuzz_rfc1035.c). NOTE: the vendor's position is that CVE-2021-45951 through CVE-2021-45957 "do not represent real vulnerabilities, to the best of our knowledge.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
dnsmasq	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

vendor has disputed this CVE, marking as not-affected

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H