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Nominum CNS and Vantio DNS Cache Poisoning Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA31011
Release Date: 2008-07-09
Popularity: 3,822 views

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

Software:Nominum Caching Name Server (CNS) 3.x
Nominum Vantio (CNS) 3.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Nominum has acknowledged a vulnerability in Nominum CNS and Vantio, which can be exploited by malicious people to poison the DNS cache.

The vulnerability is caused due to the DNS servers not sufficiently randomising the DNS query port number, which can be exploited to poison the DNS cache.

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