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Secunia Advisory SA31014

Sun Solaris DNS Cache Poisoning Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA31014
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Release Date 2008-07-09
Last Update 2008-11-12
   
Popularity 9,227 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Spoofing
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Operating System
Sun Solaris 8.x
Sun Solaris 9.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-1447 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious people to poison the DNS cache.

The vulnerability is caused due to the products not sufficiently randomising the DNS transaction ID and the source port number, which can be exploited to poison the DNS cache.

The vulnerability affects Solaris 8, 9, and OpenSolaris.


Solution
Apply patches.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Dan Kaminsky, IOActive

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239392-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-240048-1
http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/isrs_available_for_bind_dns

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
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