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The scope of this vulnerability is huge! A lot of server applications attempt to resolve or reverse-resolve network clients's hostnames or IP addresses when a c
by caf 12y ago
The scope of this vulnerability is huge! A lot of server applications attempt to resolve or reverse-resolve network clients's hostnames or IP addresses when a connection is established, so they would all be potentially vulnerable: the malicious client controlling his DNS records simply needs to return specially crafted hostname or address data that is too big to fit in the buffer.
This overstates things a bit - hostnames that can be returned by the reverse DNS resolver can't trigger the vulnerability (maximum label length of 63). It needs to be a hostname supplied by a non-DNS method (eg. the POC uses the HELO SMTP command).