Re: new DNS forwarder vulnerability

["Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood () cable comcast com>]

Well, at least all this CPE checks in for security updates every night so
this should be fixable. Oh wait, no, nevermind, they don't. :-(


This is getting to be the vulnerability of the week club for home gateway
devices - quite concerning.

JL

On 3/14/14, 12:05 PM, "Merike Kaeo" <merike () doubleshotsecurity com> wrote:

> On Mar 14, 2014, at 7:06 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr>
> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 01:59:27PM +0000,
> > Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org> wrote
> > a message of 10 lines which said:
> >
> > > did you characterise what dns servers / embedded kit were
> > > vulnerable?
> >
> > He said "We have not been able to nail this vulnerability down to a
> > single box or manufacturer" so it seems the answer is No.
>
>
>
> It is my understanding  that many CPEs work off of same reference
> implementation(s).  I haven't
> had any cycles for this but with all the CPE issues out there it would be
> interesting to have
> a matrix of which CPEs utilize which reference implementation.  That may
> start giving some clues.
>
> Has someone / is someone doing this?
>
> - merike