May 9, 2022, 6:58 p.m. |

CERT Recently Published Vulnerability Notes kb.cert.org

Overview


The uClibc and uClibc-ng libraries, prior to uClibc-ng 1.0.41, are vulnerable to DNS cache poisoning due to the use of predicatble DNS transaction IDs when making DNS requests. This vulnerability can allow an attacker to perform DNS cache poisoning attacks against a vulnerable environment.


Description


The uClibc and the Uclibc-ng software are lightweight C standard libraries intended for use in embedded systems and mobile devices. The uClibc library has not been updated since May of 2012. The newer uClibc-ng …

dns id transaction id uclibc

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