[systemd-devel] Setting UseDomains=yes by default DHCP

Tom Gundersen teg at jklm.no
Tue May 19 10:11:24 PDT 2015


It seems this thread was already resolved, just wanted to add one comment:

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> So to mount a successful spoof, the attacker needs to
> a) control the dhcp server domain option to return a domain under attacker control

Notice that this is entirely trivial, as the attacker does not need to
control _the_ DHCP server, all they have to do is to provide a
competing DHCP server on the local link and hope they get picked over
the real one.

Cheers,

Tom


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