A flaw was found in dnsmasq. The TCP DNS service uses a small fixed pool of child processes and does not set a receive timeout on client connections. A remote attacker can open idle TCP connections to port 53 and occupy the entire pool, preventing new TCP DNS connections and DNSSEC validation that requires TCP fallback. UDP DNS resolution continues, and occupied slots are released after a fixed lifetime.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 5.3 · red hatNVD modified 2026-10-29 12:47
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 2
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-93007 vdb-entry, x_refsource_redhat
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2536076 issue-tracking, x_refsource_redhat