NAME:WRECK ALERT: New DNS Vulnerabilities Have the Potential to Impact Millions of Devices | Linux Today

NAME:WRECK ALERT: New DNS Vulnerabilities Have the Potential to Impact Millions of Devices

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Apr 13, 2021

Forescout Research Labs, in partnership with JSOF, has disclosed a new set of DNS vulnerabilities, dubbed NAME:WRECK.

These vulnerabilities affect four popular TCP/IP stacks—namely FreeBSD, IPnet, Nucleus NET and NetX—which are commonly present in well-known IT software and popular IoT/OT firmware.  and have the potential to impact millions of IoT devices around the world.

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