CVE-2006-2017

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2006-2017 · Published 25/04/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-2017 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting dnsmasq (dnsmasq).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.8%, higher than 79.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
dnsmasq dnsmasq	`= 2.29`	No fix yet

Dnsmasq 2.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a DHCP client broadcast reply request.

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