{"id":138914,"date":"2022-05-03T19:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T00:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/unpatched-dns-bug-affects-millions-of-routers-and-iot-devices"},"modified":"2022-05-03T19:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T00:02:18","slug":"unpatched-dns-bug-affects-millions-of-routers-and-iot-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/unpatched-dns-bug-affects-millions-of-routers-and-iot-devices","title":{"rendered":"Unpatched DNS bug affects millions of routers and IoT devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unpatched-dns-bug-affects-millions-of-routers-and-iot-devices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A vulnerability in the domain name system (DNS) component of a popular C standard library that is present in a wide range of IoT products may put millions of devices at DNS poisoning attack risk.<\/p>\n<p>A threat actor can use DNS poisoning or DNS spoofing to redirect the victim to a malicious website hosted at an IP address on a server controlled by the attacker instead of the legitimate location.<\/p>\n<p>The library uClibc and its fork from the <a href=\"https:\/\/openwrt.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">OpenWRT<\/a> team, uClibc-ng. Both variants are widely used by major vendors like Netgear, Axis, and Linksys, as well as Linux distributions suitable for embedded applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vulnerability in the domain name system (DNS) component of a popular C standard library that is present in a wide range of IoT products may put millions of devices at DNS poisoning attack risk. A threat actor can use DNS poisoning or DNS spoofing to redirect the victim to a malicious website hosted at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}