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Secunia Advisory SA14595

Symantec Products Unspecified DNS Cache Poisoning Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA14595
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Release Date 2005-03-16
Last Update 2005-03-21
   
Popularity 15,206 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Spoofing
Manipulation of data
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Operating System
Symantec Gateway Security 1.x
Symantec Gateway Security 2.x
Symantec VelociRaptor 1.5

Software:
Symantec Enterprise Firewall (SEF) 7.x
Symantec Enterprise Firewall (SEF) 8.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2005-0817 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in various Symantec gateway products, which can be exploited by malicious people to poison the DNS cache.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the DNS proxy (DNSd) when functioning as a DNS caching server or primary DNS server and can be exploited to poison the DNS cache.

The vulnerability may be related to:
SA11888

The following products are affected:
* Symantec Gateway Security 5400 Series, v2.x
* Symantec Gateway Security 5300 Series, v1.0
* Symantec Enterprise Firewall, v7.0.x (Windows and Solaris)
* Symantec Enterprise Firewall v8.0 (Windows and Solaris)
* Symantec VelociRaptor, Model 1100/1200/1300 v1.5

NOTE: This has already been exploited in the wild.


Solution
The vendor has issued hotfixes.
Further details available in Customer Area

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Symantec:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2005.03.15.html
http://service1.symantec.com/support/ent-gate.nsf/docid/2005030417285454

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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