I will drop this and proposed patch for 4890 for same reasons as given
for scarthgap:

https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-devel/message/127125

https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-devel/message/127126

Thanks,

Anuj

On Sat, May 23, 2026 at 1:01 PM Ankur Tyagi via lists.openembedded.org
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Abhishek Bachiphale <[email protected]>
>
> dnsmasqs extract_name() function can be abused to cause a heap buffer
> overflow, allowing an attacker to inject false DNS cache entries,
> which could result in DNS lookups to redirect to an attacker-controlled
> IP address, or to cause a DoS.
>
> Reference:
> [ https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-2291 ]
>
> Signed-off-by: Abhishek Bachiphale <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <[email protected]>
> (cherry picked from commit a53328688a239e97b8383ffbfd7b4b4eca108d73)
> Signed-off-by: Ankur Tyagi <[email protected]>
> ---
>  .../recipes-support/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_2.92.bb   |  1 +
>  .../dnsmasq/files/CVE-2026-2291.patch         | 37 +++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 
> meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/files/CVE-2026-2291.patch
>
> diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_2.92.bb 
> b/meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_2.92.bb
> index 59509ecba2..bef058aa3e 100644
> --- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_2.92.bb
> +++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_2.92.bb
> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ SRC_URI = 
> "http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/${@['archive/', ''][float(d.getV
>             file://dnsmasq-resolvconf.service \
>             file://dnsmasq-noresolvconf.service \
>             file://dnsmasq-resolved.conf \
> +           file://CVE-2026-2291.patch \
>  "
>  SRC_URI[sha256sum] = 
> "fd908e79ff37f73234afcb6d3363f78353e768703d92abd8e3220ade6819b1e1"
>
> diff --git 
> a/meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/files/CVE-2026-2291.patch 
> b/meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/files/CVE-2026-2291.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..6e42f32136
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/files/CVE-2026-2291.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
> +commit ec2fbfbbdaa7d7db1c707dce26ce1a37cfe09660
> +Author: Simon Kelley <[email protected]>
> +Date:   Fri Apr 10 16:29:31 2026 +0100
> +
> +Fix buffer overflow in struct bigname.  CVE-2026-2291
> +
> +All buffers capable of holding a domain name should be
> +at least MAXDNAME*2 + 1 bytes long, where MAXDNAME is the maximum
> +size of a domain name. The accounts for the trailing zero and the
> +fact that some characters are escaped in the internal representation
> +of a domain name in dnsmasq.
> +
> +The declaration of struct bigname get this wrong, with the effect
> +that a remote attacker capable of asking DNS queries or answering DNS
> +queries can cause a large OOB write in the heap.
> +
> +This was first spotted by Andrew S. Fasano.
> +
> +CVE: CVE-2026-2291
> +
> +Upstream-Status: Backport [ 
> https://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git;a=commit;h=014e909f787e808bb35daa546d3f8f3663918de2
>  ]
> +
> +Signed-off-by: Abhishek Bachiphale <[email protected]>
> +
> +diff --git a/src/dnsmasq.h b/src/dnsmasq.h
> +index 254bacd..58be09f 100644
> +--- a/src/dnsmasq.h
> ++++ b/src/dnsmasq.h
> +@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ struct interface_name {
> + };
> +
> + union bigname {
> +-  char name[MAXDNAME];
> ++  char name[(2*MAXDNAME) + 1];
> +   union bigname *next; /* freelist */
> + };
> +
>
> 
>
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