CVE-2008-3214: Thekelleys Dnsmasq

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

dnsmasq 2.25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by (1) renewing a nonexistent lease or (2) sending a DHCPREQUEST for an IP address that is not in the same network, related to the DHCP NAK response from the daemon.

Affected products

• Thekelleys Dnsmasq: version 2.25 only

Published 2008-07-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.