Ghost Domain Names Attack Vulnerability in Unbound DNS Resolver

CVE-2012-1192 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

The resolver in Unbound before 1.4.11 overwrites cached server names and TTL values in NS records during the processing of a response to an A record query, which allows remote attackers to trigger continued resolvability of revoked domain names via a "ghost domain names" attack.

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