CVE record · CVE-2026-12969

Dnsmasq: dnsmasq: out-of-bounds read in find_soa() due to missing extrabytes validation

CVSS 5.3 MediumEPSS 0.0026 · 17th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 23 Jun 2026, 13:28 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: dnsmasq https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Package name: dnsmasq https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: dnsmasq https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: dnsmasq https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: dnsmasq https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Package name: openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Package name: openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-12969
CNA
redhat
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-125
Published
23 Jun 2026
Updated
31 Aug 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
5.3 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CNA (redhat)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0026, the 17th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 23 Jun 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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