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HP-UX BIND4 DNS Cache Poisoning Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA20217
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Release Date:
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2006-05-23
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Popularity:
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7,038 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Spoofing
Manipulation of data
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Workaround
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| OS: | HP-UX 11.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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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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