Recently, cybersecurity experts have detected nearly 7 vulnerabilities in a very popular DNS software set that has been executed in routers and access points in every kind of business.
We all know that Dnsmasq is very popular, and the experts have identified approximately 40 vendors whom they believe to use Dnsmasq in their products. Not only this, but they also use a very major Linux distribution.
According to the experts, the set of flaws has been dubbed as DNSpooq, which resides in Dnsmasq, the DNS forwarding client for UNIX-based operating systems.
DNSpooq
Dnsmasq is combined in the firmware of various network devices to implement DNS forwarding abilities by taking DNS requests that are made by all local users; later, the users forward the request to an upstream DNS server and capture all the results.
However, all the same, results are accessible to other clients without the need for a new upstream DNS query. This software is found in the devices of firms such as Cisco, ZTE,…