CVE-2015-3294

mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.050 · 92 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

4.95% (92nd) EPSS

CVSS 6.4 · medium

Is it mine?

4 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

The tcp_request function in Dnsmasq before 2.73rc4 does not properly handle the return value of the setup_reply function, which allows remote attackers to read process memory and cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a malformed DNS request.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.4

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.06.4mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 4.9

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Psecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v2.05.4mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-19USprimaryCWE-19US

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Simon Kelley Dnsmasq2.0 → 2.72fstec_bduRU
oracle solaris= 11.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
thekelleys dnsmasq≤ 2.73nvdUScpe:2.3:a:thekelleys:dnsmasq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2015-05-08modified 2026-06-17

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references (29)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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