transmission-daemon -- vulnerable to dns rebinding attacks

Google Project Zero reports: The transmission bittorrent client uses a client/server architecture, the user interface is the client which communicates to the worker daemon using JSON RPC requests. As with all HTTP RPC schemes like this, any website can send requests to the daemon listening on...

systemd Network Name Resolution Manager NSEC Resource Record Pseudo-Types Denial of Service Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service condition on vulnerable installations of systemd Network Name Resolution Manager. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of NSEC resource records in...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12132

The DNS stub resolver in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before version 2.26, when EDNS support is enabled, will solicit large UDP responses from name servers, potentially simplifying off-path DNS spoofing attacks due to IP fragmentation...

Ubuntu Fixes Linux Systemd Bug

Developers with Canonical pushed out a handful of patches for the Linux-based operating system Ubuntu this week, including one that resolves a bug that could have let an attacker cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with a TCP payload. Chris Coulson, a software and electronics...

Native DNS Server (Example)

This module provides a Rex based DNS service which can store static entries, resolve names over pivots, and serve DNS requests across routed session comms. DNS tunnels can operate across the Rex switchboard, and DNS other modules can use this as a template. Setting static records via hostfile...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: systemd-233-4.fc26

systemd is a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts the rest of the system. It provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux control groups,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: mingw-c-ares-1.12.0-1.fc24

c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolves asynchronously. c-ares is a fork of the library named 'ares', written by Greg Hudson at MIT...

Security update for ntp (important)

ntp was updated to version 4.2.8p6 to fix 12 security issues. Also yast2-ntp-client was updated to match some sntp syntax changes. bsc937837 These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2015-8158: Fixed potential infinite loop in ntpq bsc962966. - CVE-2015-8138: Zero Origin Timestamp Bypass bsc963002....

GNU C Library: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The GNU C library is the standard C library used by Gentoo Linux systems. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the GNU C Library: The Google Security Team and Red Hat discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the senddg and sendvc functions due to a buffer...

Debian DLA-416-1 : eglibc security update

Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in the Debian GNU C Library, eglibc : CVE-2015-7547 The Google Security Team and Red Hat discovered that the glibc host name resolver function, getaddrinfo, when processing AFUNSPEC queries for dual A/AAAA lookups, could mismange its internal buffers, leadi...

DSA-3481-1 glibc - security update

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CVE-2016-0747

The resolver in nginx before 1.8.1 and 1.9.x before 1.9.10 does not properly limit CNAME resolution, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service worker process resource consumption via vectors related to arbitrary name resolution...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-0747

The resolver in nginx before 1.8.1 and 1.9.x before 1.9.10 does not properly limit CNAME resolution, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service worker process resource consumption via vectors related to arbitrary name resolution...

ipv6-multicast-mld-list NSE Script

Uses Multicast Listener Discovery to list the multicast addresses subscribed to by IPv6 multicast listeners on the link-local scope. Addresses in the IANA IPv6 Multicast Address Space Registry have their descriptions listed. Script Arguments ipv6-multicast-mld-list.timeout timeout to wait for...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2013-270)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

OpenJDK: DnsClient fails to release request information after error (JNDI, 8075378)

It was discovered that the JNDI component in OpenJDK did not handle DNS resolution errors correctly. An attacker able to trigger such DNS errors could cause a Java application using JNDI to consume memory and CPU time, and possibly block further DNS resolution...

OpenJDK: DnsClient fails to release request information after error (JNDI, 8075378)

It was discovered that the JNDI component in OpenJDK did not handle DNS resolution errors correctly. An attacker able to trigger such DNS errors could cause a Java application using JNDI to consume memory and CPU time, and possibly block further DNS resolution...

OpenJDK: DnsClient fails to release request information after error (JNDI, 8075378)

It was discovered that the JNDI component in OpenJDK did not handle DNS resolution errors correctly. An attacker able to trigger such DNS errors could cause a Java application using JNDI to consume memory and CPU time, and possibly block further DNS resolution...

Joyent Node.js dns-sync module arbitrary command execution vulnerability

Joyent Node.js is a set of Joyent's web application platform built on top of Google's V8 JavaScript engine. dns-sync is one of the libraries that allows synchronized resolution of hostnames. A security vulnerability exists in the node.js dns-sync module. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability ...

glibc: __nss_hostname_digits_dots() heap-based buffer overflow

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in glibc's nsshostnamedigitsdots function, which is used by the gethostbyname and gethostbyname2 glibc function calls. A remote attacker able to make an application call either of these functions could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the...