Unbound could be made to hijack domains if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Yuxiao Wu, Yunyi Zhang, Baojun Liu, and Haixin Duan discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled certain promiscuous NS RRSets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a domain hijack attack.
Yuxiao Wu, Yunyi Zhang, Baojun Liu, and Haixin Duan discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled certain promiscuous NS RRSets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a domain hijack attack.
Yuxiao Wu, Yunyi Zhang, Baojun Liu, and Haixin Duan discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled certain promiscuous NS RRSets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a domain hijack attack.
Yuxiao Wu, Yunyi Zhang, Baojun Liu, and Haixin Duan discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled certain promiscuous NS RRSets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a domain hijack attack.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
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