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DDoS Attacks against DNS Infrastructure in the News
DNS-based DDoS attacks have gained mindshare among Akamai customers lately, most recently with last year's Dyn attacks written about on the Akamai Blog here and here and this week's attack against Cedexis. DNS infrastructure is a ripe target for malicious actors hoping to disrupt a digital...
Dashlane: Throttling Bypass - ws1.dashlane.com
Description The host at ws1.dashlane.com throttles requests based on the IP address of the user after a certain amount of repeated requests. By adding the X-Forwarded-For header, an attacker can bypass the throttling completely, rendering the security measure ineffective against DOS attacks. Proo...
CVE-2017-3136
A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND handled query requests when using DNS64 with "break-dnssec yes" option. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS request. Mitigation Servers which have...
bind: assertion failure while handling a query response containing inconsistent DNSSEC information
A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND handled a query response containing inconsistent DNSSEC information. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS response...
bind: assertion failure while handling a query response containing inconsistent DNSSEC information
A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND handled a query response containing inconsistent DNSSEC information. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS response...
DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9147
named in ISC BIND 9.9.9-P4, 9.9.9-S6, 9.10.4-P4, and 9.11.0-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assertion failure and daemon exit via a response containing an inconsistency among the DNSSEC-related RRsets...
ISC BIND 9 DNSSEC Assertion Failure Denial of Service Vulnerability
ISC BIND is the United States Internet Systems Consortium ISC company maintains a set of open source software that implements the DNS protocol. A remote denial of service vulnerability exists in ISC BIND named, which can be exploited to cause a denial of service by an attacker who incorrectly...
Securing DNS Communication: dnscrypt-proxy
dnscrypt-proxy is a flexible DNS proxy. It runs on your computer or router, and can locally block unwanted content, reveal where your devices are silently sending data to, make applications feel faster by caching DNS responses, and improve security and confidentiality by communicating to upstream...
Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: bind97 security update
An update for bind97 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...
Legal Robot: unsecured legalrobot.co.uk assets
A security researcher found that multiple gTLD permutations of our legalrobot domain names like legalrobot.co.uk were allowing access to sensitive ports 22 and disclosing vulnerable server versions. While these other domains are, for the time being, intended to simply redirect to our main...
SOL06145135 - Remote DNS security filter vulnerabilities CVE-2003-1491 and CVE-2004-1473
Vulnerability Recommended Actions None Supplemental Information SOL9970: Subscribing to email notifications regarding F5 products SOL9957: Creating a custom RSS feed to view new and updated documents SOL4602: Overview of the F5 security vulnerability response policy SOL4918: Overview of the F5...
bind: malformed DNSSEC key failed assertion denial of service
A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND parsed certain malformed DNSSEC keys. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially crafted DNS query for example, a query requiring a response from a zone containing a deliberately malformed key that would cause named functioning as ...
CentOS Update for bind CESA-2015:1705 centos7
Check the version of bind 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882274";...
UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4620
name.c in named in ISC BIND 9.7.x through 9.9.x before 9.9.7-P1 and 9.10.x before 9.10.2-P2, when configured as a recursive resolver with DNSSEC validation, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service REQUIRE assertion failure and daemon exit by constructing crafted zone data and then...
MGASA-2015-0180 Updated python-pip packages fix security vulnerabilities
Updated python-pip and python-virtualenv packages fix security vulnerability: The mirroring support in python-pip was implemented without any sort of authenticity checks and is downloaded over plaintext HTTP. Further more by default it will dynamically discover the list of available mirrors by...
Securing DNS Essential to Web's Future, Dan Kaminsky
CANCUN – “2015 got weird… really weird.” Those were some of the first words spoken by Dan Kaminsky in his talk today at the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit Monday. He was referring to a few key events from the last several weeks: the Sony hack debacle, or what he called “North Korean or...
Greenhouse.io: Subdomain Takeover using blog.greenhouse.io pointing to Hubspot
Hi, Your subdomain blog.greenhouse.io is pointing to the service called Hubspot. However, your account at Hubspot has expired or has been cancelled. This basically means that anyone can claim your subdomain pointing to Hubspot and create their own site at this URL. This is EXTREMELY dangerous as...
Domain Analyzer Security Tool - Finds all the security information for a given domain name
Domain analyzer is a security analysis tool which automatically discovers and reports information about the given domain. Its main purpose is to analyze domains in an unattended way. Features It creates a directory with all the information, including nmap output files. It uses colors to remark...
MGASA-2014-0284 Updated php packages fix multiple vulnerabilities
Updated php packages fix security vulnerabilities: The unserialize function in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.14 has a Type Confusion issue related to the SPL ArrayObject and SPLObjectStorage Types CVE-2014-3515. It was discovered that PHP is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the DNS TXT...
