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BIND Negative Cache Poisoning Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA10300
Release Date: 2003-11-27
Last Update: 2003-12-02
Popularity: 14,158 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:ISC BIND 8.x.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2003-0914


Description:
ISC has released a new version of BIND 8, which fixes a vulnerability allowing malicious people to poison the DNS cache.

The problem is that negative answers may be cached from the wrong source. This can be exploited to cause a "Denial of Service" against certain domains, because BIND will read the wrongly cached negative answer instead of querying the right source.

Solution:
A DNS cache should only be accessible from specified IP addresses. A proper firewall filter will limit the possibilities of sending spoofed or fake answers to the DNS cache.

ISC has released BIND 8.3.7 and 8.4.3:

ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/8.3.7/

ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/8.4.3/

http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind8.html

Changelog:
2003-12-02: Added link to CERT vulnerability note.

Original Advisory:
http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind8.html

Other References:
CERT VU#734644:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/734644


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