SUSE CVE-2020-17440

An issue was discovered in uIP 1.0, as used in Contiki 3.0 and other products. The code that parses incoming DNS packets does not validate that domain names present in the DNS responses have '\0' termination. This results in errors when calculating the offset of the pointer that jumps over domain...

ruby: Command injection in lib/resolv.rb:lazy_initialize() allows arbitrary code execution

The "lazyinitialize" function in lib/resolv.rb did not properly process certain filenames. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this flaw to inject and execute arbitrary commands...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-7423

The senddg function in resolv/ressend.c in GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.20 does not properly reuse file descriptors, which allows remote attackers to send DNS queries to unintended locations via a large number of requests that trigger a call to the getaddrinfo function...