achernya/hesiod

achernya/hesiod

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Hesiod name service library

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CVE History

CVE	Published	CVSS v3	CVSS v2
CVE-2016-10152 ↗	Mar 28, 2017Tuesday, 28 March 2017, 14:59	—	10 HIGH
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.
CVE-2016-10151 ↗	Mar 1, 2017Wednesday, 1 March 2017, 20:59	—	6.9 MEDIUM
The hesiod_init function in lib/hesiod.c in Hesiod 3.2.1 compares EUID with UID to determine whether to use configurations from environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) HESIOD_CONFIG or (2) HES_DOMAIN environment variable and leveraging certain SUID/SGUID binary.