CVE-2021-43523

In uClibc and uClibc-ng before 1.0.39, incorrect handling of special characters in domain names returned by DNS servers via gethostbyname, getaddrinfo, gethostbyaddr, and getnameinfo can lead to output of wrong hostnames leading to domain hijacking or injection into applications leading to remote...

CVE-2021-43523

In uClibc and uClibc-ng before 1.0.39, incorrect handling of special characters in domain names returned by DNS servers via gethostbyname, getaddrinfo, gethostbyaddr, and getnameinfo can lead to output of wrong hostnames leading to domain hijacking or injection into applications leading to remote...

CVE-2021-43523

In uClibc and uClibc-ng before 1.0.39, incorrect handling of special characters in domain names returned by DNS servers via gethostbyname, getaddrinfo, gethostbyaddr, and getnameinfo can lead to output of wrong hostnames leading to domain hijacking or injection into applications leading to remote...

Facebook shoots own foot, hits Instagram and WhatsApp too

Mark Zuckerberg was left counting the personal cost of bad PR yesterday about $6 billion, according to Bloomberg on a day when his company couldnt get out of the news headlines, for all the wrong reasons. The billionaire Facebook CEOs bad day at the office started with whistleblower Frances Hauge...

Updated c-ares packages fix security vulnerability

Missing input validation on hostnames returned by DNS servers. CVE-2021-3672...

MGASA-2021-0453 Updated c-ares packages fix security vulnerability

Missing input validation on hostnames returned by DNS servers. CVE-2021-3672...

Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict for DDoS-for-Hire Boss

A jury in California today reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Matthew Gatrel, a St. Charles, Ill. man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against Internet users and websites. Gatrels...

USN-5034-1: c-ares vulnerability

Philipp Jeitner and Haya Shulman discovered that c-ares incorrectly validated certain hostnames returned by DNS servers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform Domain Hijacking attacks...

DDoS attacks in Q2 2021

News overview In terms of big news, Q2 2021 was relatively calm, but not completely eventless. For example, April saw the active distribution of a new DDoS botnet called Simps — the name under which it introduced itself to owners of infected devices. The malware creators promoted their brainchild...

Juniper Junos OS DoS (JSA11054)

The version of Junos OS installed on the remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability as referenced in the JSA11054 advisory. When DNS filtering is enabled on Juniper Networks Junos MX Series with one of the following cards MS-PIC, MS-MIC or MS-MPC, an incoming stream of packets...

The vulnerability of the libuv library for DNS-servers like Bind9, which allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the libuv library for DNS-servers like Bind9 is related to the insufficient use of the assert function. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to cause service failures...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2021 Edition

On the off chance you were looking for more security to-dos from Microsoft today…the company released software updates to plug more than 82 security flaws in Windows and other supported software. Ten of these earned Microsofts "critical" rating, meaning they can be exploited by malware or...

ISC BIND TKEY Queries Assertion Failure (CVE-2015-5477)

A denial of service vulnerability has been reported in ISC BIND DNS servers. The vulnerability is due to the way that the DNS server improperly handles invalid TKEY resource records. A remote attacker may exploit this issue by sending a specially crafted DNS query to a DNS server. Successful...

Local symlink attack in Unbound and NSD

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CVE-2020-26525

Damstra Smart Asset 2020.7 has SQL injection via the API/api/Asset originator parameter. This allows forcing the database and server to initiate remote connections to third party DNS servers...

Sql injection

Damstra Smart Asset 2020.7 has SQL injection via the API/api/Asset originator parameter. This allows forcing the database and server to initiate remote connections to third party DNS servers...

CVE-2020-26525

Damstra Smart Asset 2020.7 has SQL injection via the API/api/Asset originator parameter. This allows forcing the database and server to initiate remote connections to third party DNS servers...

Information Disclosure

curl is vulnerable to information disclosure. The vulnerability exists as a part of a password may be prepended to the host name before the host name is resolved, leading to a leak of the partial password over the network and to DNS servers...

Akamai, CISA, and CIS Join Forces to Improve SLTT Cyber Defenses

Cybercriminals continue to target U.S. state, local, tribal, and territorial SLTT government organizations. In 2019, there were more than 100 ransomware attacks -- including an attack on Baltimore's IT systems that locked out thousands of computers and disrupted nearly every city service. This...

Pi-hole Command Injection Vulnerability

Pi-hole is a multi-platform, network-wide ad-blocking tool with support for... ,.., A command injection vulnerability exists in Pi-Hole 4.4. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by writing to /etc/pihole/dns-servers.conf to achieve elevation of privilege...