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Secunia Advisory SA31822

Apple Bonjour for Windows mDNSResponder Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA31822
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Release Date 2008-09-10
   
Popularity 17,529 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Spoofing
DoS
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
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Apple Bonjour for Windows 1.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-2326 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-3630 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Apple Bonjour for Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or spoof DNS responses.

1) A NULL pointer dereference error in the Bonjour Namespace Provider component when resolving ".local" domain names can be exploited to cause a crash the application via a specially crafted ".local" domain name containing an overly long DNS label.

2) An error in the Bonjour API due to lack of randomization when issuing unicast DNS queries can be exploited to spoof DNS responses.


Solution
Update to version 1.0.5.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
1) The vendor credits Mario Ballano, 48bits.com.
2) Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory
Apple:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2990

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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