Synopsis: Moderate: dnsmasq security update
Issue date: 2008-08-11
CVE Names: CVE-2008-1447
The dnsmasq DNS resolver used a fixed source UDP port. This could have made
DNS spoofing attacks easier. dnsmasq has been updated to use random UDP
source ports, helping to make DNS spoofing attacks harder. (CVE-2008-1447)
SL 5.x
SRPMS:
dnsmasq-2.45-1.el5_2.1.src.rpm
i386:
dnsmasq-2.45-1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
x86_64:
dnsmasq-2.45-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson