Re: CVE Request New-djbdns: dnscache: potential cache poisoning

[Michael Samuel <mik () miknet net>]

On 12 February 2014 01:51, P J P <ppandit () redhat com> wrote:

>   Hi,
>
>  -> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/11/7
>
> This looks like the same issue - predictable hash collision.


The same issue, different result.

CVE-2013-6401 is a DoS vulnerability, which would result in excess
CPU usage per hash lookup.

The described issue would result in expiring attacker-specified (but
not more) cache entries at approximately the same CPU cost.  So
this is something else.

Regards,
  Michael