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Each of these CVE's exposes a neutron based OpenStack deployment to various attacks such as leakage of sensitive memory information or causing a denial of service. Nodes are exposed to this risk by the crafting of various nefarious DNS or DHCP requests. | Each of these CVE's exposes a neutron based OpenStack deployment to various attacks such as leakage of sensitive memory information or causing a denial of service. Nodes are exposed to this risk by the crafting of various nefarious DNS or DHCP requests. |
Revision as of 15:45, 4 October 2017
Heap and Stack based buffer overflows in dnsmasq prior to version 2.78
Summary
A series of heap and stack based buffer overflows have been discovered in versions of dnsmasq prior to release 2.78.
Affected Services / Software
Any neutron based OpenStack deployment on a version of dnsmasq prior to 2.78.
Discussion
The following attack vectors have been assigned the following CVE numbers.
- CVE-2017-14491
- CVE-2017-14492
- CVE-2017-14493
- CVE-2017-14494
- CVE-2017-14495
- CVE-2017-14496
- CVE-2017-13704
Each of these CVE's exposes a neutron based OpenStack deployment to various attacks such as leakage of sensitive memory information or causing a denial of service. Nodes are exposed to this risk by the crafting of various nefarious DNS or DHCP requests.
Recommended Actions
Operators should update the dnsmasq service using the affected nodes operating systems packaging tools to version 2.78 and later, or a distribution packaged version that contains relevant backports for these vulnerabilities.
Contacts / References
Author: Luke Hinds, Red Hat This OSSN : https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OSSN/OSSN-0082 Original Launchpad Bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1721063 Mailing List : [Security] tag on openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org OpenStack Security Project : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-ossg