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CVE-2015-8899
Dnsmasq before 2.76 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a reply with an empty DNS address that has an (1) A or…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 2.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 15% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Dnsmasq before 2.76 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a reply with an empty DNS address that has an (1) A or (2) AAAA record defined locally.
Timeline
ID reserved
By canonical
- 27 days later
· 27 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 91031 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [Dnsmasq-discuss] 20160418 Dnsmasq 2.75 on Ubuntu 16.04 crashes reproducibly (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-3009-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [Dnsmasq-discuss] 20160503 Dnsmasq 2.75 on Ubuntu 16.04 crashes reproducibly (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160603 Re: CVE Request: Dnsmasq denial of service (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 1036045 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=41a8d9e99be9f2cc8b02051dd322cb45e0faac87 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160603 CVE Request: Dnsmasq denial of service (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-8755 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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