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Title : Cisco Products Remote DNS Cache Poisoning Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2025
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1447
CWE ID : CWE-331
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-07-09

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A vulnerability has been identified in various Cisco products, which could be exploited by remote attackers to poison a vulnerable DNS cache. This issue is caused due to the DNS servers not sufficiently randomising DNS transaction IDs and UDP source ports in the DNS queries that they produce, which may allow an attacker to more easily forge DNS answers that can poison DNS caches [...]

Solution

Apply fixes :
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080708-dns.shtml

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Dan Kaminsky (IOActive).

ChangeLog

2008-07-09 : Initial release

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