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PowerDNS Recursor DNS Cache Poisoning Vulnerability Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA29584  
Release Date: 2008-03-31
Last Update: 2008-04-09

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

Software:PowerDNS Recursor 3.x

CVE reference:CVE-2008-1637 (Secunia mirror)

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

The vulnerability is caused due to the application using predictable standard C library functions to generate random numbers (e.g. "rand()" and "srand()"), which are then used to create the transaction ID (TRXID) and UDP source port. This can be exploited to poison the DNS cache by guessing the transaction TRXID and the UDP source port.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 3.1.5.

Solution:
Update to version 3.1.5.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Amit Klein, Trusteer

Changelog:
2008-04-09: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
PowerDNS:
http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html

Amit Klein:
http://www.trusteer.com/docs/powerdnsrecursor.html



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2 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. PowerDNS Recursor Two Vulnerabilities
2. PowerDNS Recursor Denial of Service Vulnerability


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