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If you request a network connection to an attacker-controlled host, your network software may try to resolve the attacker's host name. The DNS NS record of thei
by peterwwillis 11y ago
If you request a network connection to an attacker-controlled host, your network software may try to resolve the attacker's host name. The DNS NS record of their domain may then specify your resolver directly look up the record using the attacker's own name server, meaning you are directly doing DNS queries against the attacker's NS.
So in theory, all you need to be exploited is to connect to a compromised host and resolve its hostname.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoIt could be even worse than that. If the attacker tries to connect to you, your server may try to reverse their IP for logging, and the attacker can control the PTR record. Or the attacker could send you an email that's guaranteed to bounce, and they control the return path that your mailer has to resolve.