Three Ways DNS is Weaponized and How to Mitigate the Risk

In the early stages of the “Net” each computer system participating in this network could only be contacted by knowing it’s unique 32bit IP address. As the Net grew into the Internet that we know today, some changes had to be made to allow this system of interconnected computers to communicate wi...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17419

An issue was discovered in setTA in scanrr.go in the Miek Gieben DNS library before 1.0.10 for Go. A dns.ParseZone parsing error causes a segmentation violation, leading to denial of service...

CVE-2019-3777

Pivotal Application Service PAS, versions 2.2.x prior to 2.2.12, 2.3.x prior to 2.3.7 and 2.4.x prior to 2.4.3, contain apps manager that uses a cloud controller proxy that fails to verify SSL certs. A remote unauthenticated attacker that could hijack the Cloud Controller's DNS record could...

Architecting DNS for DDoS Durability and Resilience

My business depends on my domain name being 100% available. How do I ensure my domain name is durable to attack and resilient during Internet stress? After many years of hard work from many Internet engineers and system administrators, Akamai Technologies has been working towards DNS infrastructu...

The vulnerability of Secutech router microprogramming software, related to insufficient verification of data authenticity, allows a hacker to alter DNS settings.

The vulnerability of Secutech router microprogramming software is related to insufficient verification of data authenticity. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to alter DNS settings by making a request to goform/AdvSetDns?GO=wandns.asp...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-1697-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

PHP has an unspecified vulnerability (CNVD-2019-42546)

PHP PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is an open source general-purpose computer scripting language jointly maintained by the PHPGroup and the open source community. The language is mainly used for Web development, supports a variety of databases and operating systems. A...

USN-3893-2: Bind vulnerabilities

USN-3893-1 fixed a vulnerability in Bind. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain trust anchors when used with the "managed-keys" feature. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5745

"managed-keys" is a feature which allows a BIND resolver to automatically maintain the keys used by trust anchors which operators configure for use in DNSSEC validation. Due to an error in the managed-keys feature it is possible for a BIND server which uses managed-keys to exit due to an assertio...

haproxy: Infinite recursion via crafted packet allows stack exhaustion and denial of service

An issue was discovered in dns.c in HAProxy through 1.8.14. In the case of a compressed pointer, a crafted packet can trigger infinite recursion by making the pointer point to itself, or create a long chain of valid pointers resulting in stack exhaustion...

CVE-2019-5781

Incorrect handling of a confusable character in Omnibox in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox URL bar via a crafted domain name...

CVE-2019-5775

Incorrect handling of a confusable character in Omnibox in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox URL bar via a crafted domain name...

CVE-2019-5776

Incorrect handling of a confusable character in Omnibox in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox URL bar via a crafted domain name...

CVE-2019-5777

Incorrect handling of a confusable character in Omnibox in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox URL bar via a crafted domain name...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5777

Incorrect handling of a confusable character in Omnibox in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox URL bar via a crafted domain name...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5775

Incorrect handling of a confusable character in Omnibox in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox URL bar via a crafted domain name...

CVE-2019-5777

Incorrect handling of a confusable character in Omnibox in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox URL bar via a crafted domain name...

Code injection

Incorrect handling of a confusable character in Omnibox in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox URL bar via a crafted domain name...

Code injection

Incorrect handling of a confusable character in Omnibox in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox URL bar via a crafted domain name...

CVE-2019-5776

Incorrect handling of a confusable character in Omnibox in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox URL bar via a crafted domain name...