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Message-ID: <CACYkhxgoUzwicNm5onhV3Wscu35NzzLZzjTp7VUCp0Wa41dSyQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:23:54 +1100
From: Michael Samuel <mik@...net.net>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request New-djbdns: dnscache: potential cache poisoning
On 12 February 2014 01:51, P J P <ppandit@...hat.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
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