CVE-2016-10152

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10152
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-10152.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-10152
Downstream
Published
2017-03-28T14:59:00.247Z
Modified
2026-04-01T23:32:43.795922Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The readconfigfile 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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/achernya/hesiod

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/achernya/hesiod
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
30fa0206c7b1cdae5cd7200cdf1feb03838cf3af
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "3.2.1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

hesiod-2.*
hesiod-2.0.0
hesiod-3.*
hesiod-3.0.0
hesiod-3.0.1
hesiod-3.0.2
hesiod-3.1.0
hesiod-3.1.1
hesiod-3.2.0
hesiod-3.2.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-10152.json"