Security Advisory

CVE-2016-10152

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-03-28 14:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 03:14:42

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The read_config_file function in lib/hesiod.c in Hesiod 3.2.1 falls back to the ".athena.mit.edu" default domain when opening the configuration file fails, which allows remote attackers to gain root privileges by poisoning the DNS cache.

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