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CVE-2026-5172 json

CVE-2026-5172

published 6mo ago modified 2mo ago also EUVD-2026-29156

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.7%
EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A buffer overflow in dnsmasq’s extract_addresses() function allows an attacker to trigger a heap out-of-bounds read and crash by exploiting a malformed DNS response, enabling extract_name() to advance the pointer past the record’s end.

Patch / fix

  • dnsmasq dnsmasq 2.92rel2
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 0:2.90-7.el10_2
  • dnsmasq Debian 12 2.90-4~deb12u2
  • dnsmasq Debian 13 2.91-1+deb13u1
  • dnsmasq Debian 14 2.92-5

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-5172

  • dnsmasq Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 2.90-0ubuntu0.22.04.3
  • dnsmasq Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 2.90-2ubuntu0.3
  • dnsmasq Ubuntu 25.10 2.91-1ubuntu0.2
  • dnsmasq Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 2.92-1ubuntu0.2
  • dnsmasq Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2.90-0ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm3
  • dnsmasq Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 2.90-0ubuntu0.18.04.1+esm3
  • dnsmasq Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 2.90-0ubuntu0.20.04.1+esm2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-5172

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • dnsmasq RHEL 10.2 2.90-7.el10_2
  • dnsmasq-utils RHEL 10.2 2.90-7.el10_2

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:19158

  • dnsmasq SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5-LTSS 2.92rel2-18.27.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:2458-1

  • dnsmasq openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.92rel2-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:10821-1

  • dnsmasq AlmaLinux 10 2.90-7.el10_2
  • dnsmasq-utils AlmaLinux 10 2.90-7.el10_2

almalinux advisories ALSA-2026:19158

  • dnsmasq Rocky Linux 10 2.90-7.el10_2

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2026:19158

  • dnsmasq Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 2.91-r1
  • dnsmasq Alpine 3.24 2.92_p2-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2026-5172

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • dnsmasq Azure Linux 3.0 2.92-1

azure linux advisories AZL-86766

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-5172 updated cvss 7.5

dnsmasq: extract_addresses() OOB read via malformed rdlen

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 dnsmasq, dnsmasq-utils
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 dnsmasq, dnsmasq-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 dnsmasq, dnsmasq-utils
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10) dnsmasq 2.90-7.el10_2, dnsmasq-utils 2.90-7.el10_2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:19158
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0) dnsmasq 2.90-4.el10_0.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:92677
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 dnsmasq, dnsmasq-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0) dnsmasq-utils 2.90-4.el10_0.1
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
    not affected: component not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
5mo ago

Exploit prediction

2.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • dnsmasq dnsmasq
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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