CVE-2016-10152

Publication date

2017-03-28 14:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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.