CVE-2006-2017: Dnsmasq

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Dnsmasq Dnsmasq: version 2.29 only

Published 2006-04-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.