Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Oct 29, 2026· Updated Oct 29, 2026
CVE-2026-93007
CVE-2026-93007
Description
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.
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