Vulnerabilities > Hesiod Project

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2017-03-28 CVE-2016-10152 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability in Hesiod Project Hesiod
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.
network
low complexity
hesiod-project CWE-264
critical
9.8
2017-03-01 CVE-2016-10151 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability in Hesiod Project Hesiod 3.2.1
The hesiod_init function in lib/hesiod.c in Hesiod 3.2.1 compares EUID with UID to determine whether to use configurations from environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) HESIOD_CONFIG or (2) HES_DOMAIN environment variable and leveraging certain SUID/SGUID binary.
local
high complexity
hesiod-project CWE-264
7.0