- Jul 22, 2014
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Security researchers at Google have found seven security bugs in the Dnsmasq application that put an inestimable number of desktops, servers, smartphones, routers, and other IoT devices at risk of hacking.
The seven vulnerabilities are sneakily dangerous because they affect Dnsmasq, a tool that provides a simple DNS server, DNS forwarder, route advertisement, and DHCP capabilities for the devices it is embedded with.
Unknown to most users is that Dnsmasq is currently deployed with Linux and its various modified distributions used for IoT devices and SOHO routers, but also in Android-based devices.
Vulnerabilities allow attackers access to internal networks
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The seven vulnerabilities are sneakily dangerous because they affect Dnsmasq, a tool that provides a simple DNS server, DNS forwarder, route advertisement, and DHCP capabilities for the devices it is embedded with.
Unknown to most users is that Dnsmasq is currently deployed with Linux and its various modified distributions used for IoT devices and SOHO routers, but also in Android-based devices.
Vulnerabilities allow attackers access to internal networks
....
