A flaw was found in dnsmasq. The DHCPv6 client hostname parser can read one byte past the end of a crafted FQDN option because it checks the next label length before confirming the pointer is still inside the option. An attacker on the local network can trigger this with a single DHCPv6 packet. The extra byte is not returned to the client or logged, and no crash has been demonstrated.
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 4.3 · red hatNVD modified 2026-10-29 13:13
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 2
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-93009 vdb-entry, x_refsource_redhat
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2536083 issue-tracking, x_refsource_redhat