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by 0x0
3775 days ago
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It's worse than that. According to https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-02/msg00416.html any system that performs a DNS lookup may be hit. And it's not hard to cause DNS lookups to happen (think reverse DNS lookups when logging login attempts, hovering a link in an email or webpage, etc): - A back of the envelope analysis
shows that it should be possible
to write correctly formed DNS
responses with attacker controlled
payloads that will penetrate a
DNS cache hierarchy and therefore
allow attackers to exploit machines
behind such caches.
So even if you trust your local ISP and DNS servers, any random domain on the internet may be resolving to an exploit.Also, this vulnerability has apparently been around since 2008, and sitting in public view on the bugtracker for many months. Who knows who else has been sitting quietly on this for however long? :-/ |
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