Multiple Dnsmasq Vulnerabilities (AKA DNSpooq) in Sophos RED

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Medium
CVE
CVE-2020-25684
CVE-2020-25685
CVE-2020-25686
Updated:
Produit(s)
Sophos RED
ID de la publication sophos-sa-20210119-red-dnspooq
Version de l’article 1
Première publication
Solution No

Overview

Dnsmasq released a security advisory, dated January 19, 2021, disclosing details on multiple CVEs that can be triggered by a remote DNS response. The impacted dnsmasq versions are older than version 2.83. If successfully exploited by a malicious DNS server, these vulnerabilities lead to potential DNS cache-poisoning and in certain cases may lead to remote code execution (RCE).

Dnsmasq is a widely used open-source software providing DNS caching and other network services to lightweight devices, including Sophos RED. No other Sophos products are impacted by these vulnerabilities.

The DNSSEC feature is disabled on all versions of Sophos RED and the respective vulnerabilities are not applicable. However, dnsmasq is used for the split DNS functionality, which is susceptible to the cache poisoning attacks.

Applies to the following Sophos product(s) and version(s)

  • Sophos RED

Remediation

Related information

Updates

  • The potential impact on all Sophos RED versions is limited to only the cache poisoning vulnerabilities. The article has been updated accordingly.
  • A previous version of this article falsely stated that dnsmasq 2.83 and older are affected. This has been corrected to older than dnsmasq 2.83. Sophos would like to thank Thorsten Sult for reporting this!
  • The updated Sophos RED firmware for XG Firewall is available.
  • The updated Sophos RED firmware for SG UTM is available.