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Remote DNS Resolver Uses Non-Random Ports

Article ID: 33447
Last updated: 27 Jan, 2009
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Posted: 22 Jan, 2009
by: Tech Pubs S.
Updated: 27 Jan, 2009
by: Tech Pubs S.

Remote DNS Resolver Uses Non-Random Ports

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FamilyDNS
Plugin ID33447
Bugtraq ID30131
CVE IDCVE-2008-1447

Description:

Synopsis :

The remote name resolver (or the server it uses upstream) may be vulnerable
to DNS cache poisoning.


Description :

The remote DNS resolver does not use random ports when making queries to
third party DNS servers.

This problem might be exploited by an attacker to poison the remote DNS
server more easily, and therefore divert legitimate traffic to arbitrary
sites.

See also :

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113

Solution :

Contact your DNS server vendor for a patch

Risk factor :

High / CVSS Base Score : 9.4
(CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C)
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