Bug 2459195

Summary: CVE-2026-6507 dnsmasq: dnsmasq: Denial of Service due to out-of-bounds write in DHCP BOOTREPLY processing [fedora-42]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Vipul Nair <vinair>
Component: dnsmasqAssignee: Petr Menšík <pemensik>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 42CC: dns-sig, dougsland, pemensik
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["ee7bb86e-224d-401f-ace8-d23bc9444c5f"]}
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Description Vipul Nair 2026-04-17 12:24:09 UTC 
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Comment 1 Petr Menšík 2026-04-20 09:27:01 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2459196 ***