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BIND Predictable DNS Query IDs Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA26152
Release Date: 2007-07-24
Last Update: 2007-08-28
Popularity: 13,370 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Spoofing
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:ISC BIND 9.2.x
ISC BIND 9.3.x
ISC BIND 9.4.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-2926


Description:
Amit Klein has reported a vulnerability in BIND, which can be exploited by malicious people to poison the DNS cache.

The vulnerability is caused due to predictable query IDs in outgoing queries (e.g. if BIND works as resolver or when sending NOTIFYs to slaves) and can be exploited to poison the DNS cache when the query ID is guessed.

Reportedly, the chance to guess the next query ID for 50% of the queries (if the query ID is even) is 1 to 8.

The vulnerability is reported in the following versions:
* BIND 9.0 (all versions)
* BIND 9.1 (all versions)
* BIND 9.2.0, 9.2.1, 9.2.2, 9.2.3, 9.2.4, 9.2.5, 9.2.6, 9.2.7, 9.2.8
* BIND 9.3.0, 9.3.1, 9.3.2, 9.3.3, 9.3.4
* BIND 9.4.0, 9.4.1
* BIND 9.5.0a1, 9.5.0a2, 9.5.0a3, 9.5.0a4, 9.5.0a5

Solution:
Update to BIND 9.2.8-P1, BIND 9.3.4-P1, BIND 9.4.1-P1.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Amit Klein

Changelog:
2007-07-30: Added link to US-CERT.
2007-08-28: Minor corrections.

Original Advisory:
ISC:
http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind-security.php

Tusteer:
http://www.trusteer.com/docs/bind9dns_s.html

Other References:
US-CERT VU#252735:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/252735


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