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Wallbleed: A Memory Disclosure Vulnerability in the Great Firewall of China (gfw.report)
1 point by xorbyte 71 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Wallbleed, a buffer over-read vulnerability that existed in the DNS injection subsystem of the Great Firewall of China. Wallbleed caused certain nation-wide censorship middleboxes to reveal up to 125 bytes of their memory when censoring a crafted DNS query. It afforded a rare insight into one of the Great Firewall’s well-known network attacks, namely DNS injection, in terms of its internal architecture and the censor’s operational behaviors.




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