November 29, 2017 By Pierluigi Paganini
Siemens published a security advisory to confirm that four of the seven Dnsmasq vulnerabilities affect some of its SCALANCE products
In October, Google security experts disclosed seven distinct vulnerabilities in the Dnsmasq software package.
From the authors’ website, “Dnsmasq provides network infrastructure for small networks: DNS, DHCP, router advertisement and network boot.” In practice, the Dnsmasq code has been widely leveraged in routers, firewalls, IoT devices, virtualization frameworks and even mobile devices when you need to set up a portable hotspot. In other words, there is a lot of Dnsmasq code “in the wild” and bugs in this code could be a big deal depending on the nature of the vulnerabilities.
Dnsmasq can be found in Linux distributions, smartphones, routers, and many IoT devices.
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