Answer in brief
CVE-2026-93009 records a Medium severity (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability in Dnsmasq: dnsmasq: heap out-of-bounds read in dhcpv6 option 39 fqdn decoder. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Red Hat/dnsmasq (generic), Red Hat/openshift4/ose-baremetal-runtimecfg-rhel8 (generic), Red Hat/openshift4/ose-baremetal-runtimecfg-rhel9 (generic), Red Hat/openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8 (generic) and additional mapped packages. Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 4.3. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps Red Hat/dnsmasq (generic), Red Hat/openshift4/ose-baremetal-runtimecfg-rhel8 (generic), Red Hat/openshift4/ose-baremetal-runtimecfg-rhel9 (generic), Red Hat/openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8 (generic) and additional mapped packages. Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat/dnsmasqgeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/openshift4/ose-baremetal-runtimecfg-rhel8generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/openshift4/ose-baremetal-runtimecfg-rhel9generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/rhceph/alloy-rhel10generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/rhoso-operators/infra-rhel9-operatorgeneric | * | Not reported |
Published upstream
Oct 29, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Oct 29, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Oct 29, 2026
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.
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