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Message-ID: <84b54a0c-c68b-4d39-8d7c-6e16da591b19@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:12:03 -0700
From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@...cle.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Questionable CVE's reported against dnsmasq

On 10/27/25 09:34, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Among the new CVE's published this weekend were these from the VulDB CNA:
> 
> CVE-2025-12198
> 
>     A vulnerability has been found in dnsmasq up to 2.73rc6. Affected is the
[...]
> 
> CVE-2025-12199
> 
>     A vulnerability was found in dnsmasq up to 2.73rc6. Affected by this
[...]
> 
> CVE-2025-12200
> 
>     A vulnerability was determined in dnsmasq up to 2.73rc6. Affected by this
[...]

The folks on the dnsmasq mailing list also pointed out the version claimed is
a release candidate from 10 years ago, not anything current:

https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2025q4/018338.html

(The current stable release of dnsmasq is version 2.91 from March of this year.)

-- 
         -Alan Coopersmith-                 alan.coopersmith@...cle.com
          Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris

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