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HP-UX BIND4 DNS Cache Poisoning Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA20217
Release Date: 2006-05-23
Popularity: 6,773 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Spoofing
Manipulation of data
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Workaround

OS:HP-UX 11.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in HP-UX, which can be exploited by malicious people to poison the DNS cache.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in DNS BIND4 when it is configured to respond to recursive queries and the results are cached. This can be exploited in DNS cache poison attacks to e.g. redirect DNS clients to malicious or spoofed websites.

The vulnerability has been reported in HP-UX B.11.00.

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