PT-2019-1511

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 72.0.3626.81 Description The issue is related to incorrect handling of special characters in the Omnibox component of Google Chrome, allowing a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox URL bar via a...

PT-2019-1513

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 72.0.3626.81 Description The issue is related to incorrect handling of a confusable character in the Omnibox component of Google Chrome, allowing a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox URL bar vi...

PT-2019-1512

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 72.0.3626.81 Description The issue is related to incorrect handling of a confusable character in the Omnibox component of Google Chrome, allowing a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox URL bar vi...

DHS Orders U.S. Federal Agencies to Audit DNS Security for Their Domains

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS has today issued an "emergency directive" to all federal agencies ordering IT staff to audit DNS records for their respective website domains, or other agency-managed domains, within next 10 business days. The emergency security alert came in the wake ...

ALPINE-CVE-2018-5740

"deny-answer-aliases" is a little-used feature intended to help recursive server operators protect end users against DNS rebinding attacks, a potential method of circumventing the security model used by client browsers. However, a defect in this feature makes it easy, when the feature is in use, ...

ALPINE-CVE-2017-3142

An attacker who is able to send and receive messages to an authoritative DNS server and who has knowledge of a valid TSIG key name may be able to circumvent TSIG authentication of AXFR requests via a carefully constructed request packet. A server that relies solely on TSIG keys for protection wit...

ALPINE-CVE-2017-3136

A query with a specific set of characteristics could cause a server using DNS64 to encounter an assertion failure and terminate. An attacker could deliberately construct a query, enabling denial-of-service against a server if it was configured to use the DNS64 feature and other preconditions were...

ALPINE-CVE-2017-3143

An attacker who is able to send and receive messages to an authoritative DNS server and who has knowledge of a valid TSIG key name for the zone and service being targeted may be able to manipulate BIND into accepting an unauthorized dynamic update. Affects BIND 9.4.0-9.8.8, 9.9.0-9.9.10-P1,...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-3143

An attacker who is able to send and receive messages to an authoritative DNS server and who has knowledge of a valid TSIG key name for the zone and service being targeted may be able to manipulate BIND into accepting an unauthorized dynamic update. Affects BIND 9.4.0-9.8.8, 9.9.0-9.9.10-P1,...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-3135

Under some conditions when using both DNS64 and RPZ to rewrite query responses, query processing can resume in an inconsistent state leading to either an INSIST assertion failure or an attempt to read through a NULL pointer. Affects BIND 9.8.8, 9.9.3-S1 - 9.9.9-S7, 9.9.3 - 9.9.9-P5, 9.9.10b1,...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5741

To provide fine-grained controls over the ability to use Dynamic DNS DDNS to update records in a zone, BIND 9 provides a feature called update-policy. Various rules can be configured to limit the types of updates that can be performed by a client, depending on the key used when sending the update...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-3137

Mistaken assumptions about the ordering of records in the answer section of a response containing CNAME or DNAME resource records could lead to a situation in which named would exit with an assertion failure when processing a response in which records occurred in an unusual order. Affects BIND...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-3136

A query with a specific set of characteristics could cause a server using DNS64 to encounter an assertion failure and terminate. An attacker could deliberately construct a query, enabling denial-of-service against a server if it was configured to use the DNS64 feature and other preconditions were...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-3142

An attacker who is able to send and receive messages to an authoritative DNS server and who has knowledge of a valid TSIG key name may be able to circumvent TSIG authentication of AXFR requests via a carefully constructed request packet. A server that relies solely on TSIG keys for protection wit...

Google DNS Service (8.8.8.8) Now Supports DNS-over-TLS Security

Almost every activity on the Internet starts with a DNS query, a key function of the Internet that works as an Internet's directory where your device looks up for the server IP addresses after you enter a human-readable web address e.g., thehackernews.com. Since DNS queries are sent in clear text...

The vulnerability of the DNS Global Blocklist mechanism in the Microsoft Windows operating system allows a hacker to redirect traffic to a malicious destination.

The vulnerability of the DNS Global Blocklist mechanism in the Microsoft Windows operating system is related to access control errors. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to redirect traffic to a malicious destination remotely...

CVE-2018-6173

Incorrect handling of confusable characters in URL Formatter in Google Chrome prior to 68.0.3440.75 allowed a remote attacker to perform domain spoofing via IDN homographs via a crafted domain name...

CVE-2018-6172

Incorrect handling of confusable characters in URL Formatter in Google Chrome prior to 68.0.3440.75 allowed a remote attacker to perform domain spoofing via IDN homographs via a crafted domain name...

CVE-2018-6167

Incorrect handling of confusable characters in URL Formatter in Google Chrome prior to 68.0.3440.75 allowed a remote attacker to perform domain spoofing via IDN homographs via a crafted domain name...

CVE-2018-6163

Incorrect handling of confusable characters in URL Formatter in Google Chrome prior to 68.0.3440.75 allowed a remote attacker to perform domain spoofing via IDN homographs via a crafted domain name...