Dnsmasq: dnsmasq: tcp/53 child-slot exhaustion starves dnssec validation
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Ceph Storage 9 | affected | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | affected | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | affected | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | affected | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | affected | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | affected | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | affected | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | affected | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | affected | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | affected | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 | affected | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 | affected | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) | affected | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 | affected | — |
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Vendor Workaround
The following measures reduce risk: 1. Increase the TCP connection limit with --max-tcp-connections=<N> to raise the number of connections an attacker must hold. 2. Limit per-source TCP connections to port 53 with firewall rules, for example iptables connlimit on tcp/53. 3. Restrict which hosts can reach TCP port 53 if TCP DNS is not required from untrusted networks.
No CVSS v4.0
No CVSS v3.0
No CVSS v2
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.427% probability within 30 days)
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| CPEs | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:10 cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:6 cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7 |
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Dnsmasq
Dnsmasq dnsmasq Red Hat Red Hat enterprise Linux Redhat openshift Container Platform Redhat openstack Platform |
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| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:5 |
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| Description | A flaw was found in dnsmasq. The TCP DNS service uses a small fixed pool of child processes and does not set a receive timeout on client connections. A remote attacker can open idle TCP connections to port 53 and occupy the entire pool, preventing new TCP DNS connections and DNSSEC validation that requires TCP fallback. UDP DNS resolution continues, and occupied slots are released after a fixed lifetime. | |
| Title | Dnsmasq: dnsmasq: tcp/53 child-slot exhaustion starves dnssec validation | |
| First Time appeared |
Redhat
Redhat ceph Storage Redhat enterprise Linux Redhat openshift Redhat openstack |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-400 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:ceph_storage:9 cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4 cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:13 cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:18.0 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
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Redhat
Redhat ceph Storage Redhat enterprise Linux Redhat openshift Redhat openstack |
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cvssV3_1
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