CVE-2012-3411: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Dnsmasq before 2.63test1, when used with certain libvirt configurations, replies to requests from prohibited interfaces, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via a spoofed DNS query.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only
• Thekelleys Dnsmasq: up to and including 2.62

Published 2013-03-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.