# CVE-2023-28450: An issue was discovered in Dnsmasq before 2.90.

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-03-15 · Updated: 2025-11-03

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in Dnsmasq before 2.90. The default maximum EDNS.0 UDP packet size was set to 4096 but should be 1232 because of DNS Flag Day 2020.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html
- https://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb92fb32b746f2104b0f370b5b295bb8dd4bd5e5
- https://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=CHANGELOG
- https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/495.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OU2ZT4ITSEOOR2CFBAHK4Z67KXJIEWQA/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6UQ6LKDTLSSD64TBIZ3XEKBM2SWC63VV/

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