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pdnsd DNS Cache Poisoning and Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA31847
Release Date: 2008-09-16
Last Update: 2008-10-03
Popularity: 1,493 views

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

Software:pdnsd 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in pdnsd, which can be exploited by malicious people to poison the DNS cache and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) A vulnerability is caused due to pdnsd not sufficiently randomising the query port number, which can be exploited to poison the DNS cache.

2) An error exists within the "p_exec_query()" function in src/dns_query.c when processing long replies with many answer sections. This can be exploited to e.g. crash the service by sending a specially crafted reply.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to version 1.2.7-par.

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