J-Security Center

Title: Multiple Vendor BIND Cache Poisoning Vulnerability

Severity: MODERATE

Description:

BIND is the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon, a freely available implementation of the Domain Name System.

The nameserver (DNS) service daemon contains a vulnerability that allows attackers to alter the mapping between hostnames and IP numbers.

The problem exists due to the use of predictable ID's for communication between DNS service daemons. By predicting these ID's an attacker can insert rogue replies, resulting in 'cache poisoning' of the server. This can lead to incorrect hostname/IP mappings.

This problem could also be exploited through brute force attempts to beat the authoritive name server response to the target system. Upon successful exploitation, an attacker could redirect traffic for a particular domain to any desired IP address.

*** April 24, 2003

A paper detailing a new attack method has been released, identifying the increased probability of attacks against vulnerable implementations. See referenced paper for additional details.

Affected Products:

  • Apple Mac OS X 10.1.0
  • Apple Mac OS X 10.1.0
  • Apple Mac OS X 10.1.1
  • Apple Mac OS X 10.1.2
  • Apple Mac OS X 10.1.3
  • Apple Mac OS X 10.1.4
  • Apple Mac OS X 10.1.5
  • Apple Mac OS X 10.2.0
  • Apple Mac OS X 10.2.1
  • Apple Mac OS X 10.2.2
  • Apple Mac OS X 10.2.3
  • Apple Mac OS X 10.2.4
  • Apple Mac OS X Server 10.0.0
  • Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.0
  • Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.1
  • Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.2
  • Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.3
  • Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.4
  • Caldera OpenLinux Desktop 2.3.0
  • Caldera OpenLinux Server 3.1.0
  • Caldera OpenLinux Server 3.1.1
  • Caldera OpenLinux Workstation 3.1.0
  • Caldera OpenLinux Workstation 3.1.1
  • Caldera UnixWare 7.1.1
  • Conectiva Linux 4.0.0
  • Conectiva Linux 4.0.0 es
  • Conectiva Linux 4.1.0
  • Conectiva Linux 4.2.0
  • Conectiva Linux 5.0.0
  • Conectiva Linux 5.1.0
  • Conectiva Linux 6.0.0
  • Debian Linux 2.2.0
  • Debian Linux 2.2.0 68k
  • Debian Linux 2.2.0 alpha
  • Debian Linux 2.2.0 arm
  • Debian Linux 2.2.0 powerpc
  • Debian Linux 2.2.0 sparc
  • Debian Linux 2.3.0
  • Debian Linux 2.3.0 68k
  • Debian Linux 2.3.0 alpha
  • Debian Linux 2.3.0 arm
  • Debian Linux 2.3.0 powerpc
  • Debian Linux 2.3.0 sparc
  • Debian Linux 3.0.0
  • EnGarde Secure Linux 1.0.1
  • FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.6.0
  • FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.6.0 -RELEASE
  • FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.7.0
  • FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.7.0 -RELEASE
  • HP HP-UX 10.10.0
  • HP HP-UX 10.20.0
  • HP HP-UX 10.24.0
  • HP HP-UX 11.0.0
  • HP HP-UX 11.0.0 4
  • HP HP-UX 11.11.0
  • IBM AIX 4.3.0
  • IBM AIX 4.3.1
  • IBM AIX 4.3.2
  • IBM AIX 4.3.3
  • ISC BIND 4.8.0
  • ISC BIND 4.8.1
  • ISC BIND 4.8.2.1
  • ISC BIND 4.8.3
  • ISC BIND 4.9.0
  • ISC BIND 4.9.10
  • ISC BIND 4.9.10OW2
  • ISC BIND 4.9.11
  • ISC BIND 4.9.2
  • ISC BIND 4.9.3
  • ISC BIND 4.9.4
  • ISC BIND 4.9.4p1
  • ISC BIND 4.9.5
  • ISC BIND 4.9.5P1
  • ISC BIND 4.9.6
  • ISC BIND 4.9.7
  • ISC BIND 4.9.7-T1B
  • ISC BIND 4.9.8
  • ISC BIND 4.9.9
  • ISC BIND 8.1.0
  • ISC BIND 8.1.1
  • ISC BIND 8.1.2
  • ISC BIND 8.2.0
  • ISC BIND 8.2.1
  • ISC BIND 8.2.2
  • ISC BIND 8.2.2 p1
  • ISC BIND 8.2.2 p2
  • ISC BIND 8.2.2 p3
  • ISC BIND 8.2.2 p4
  • ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5
  • ISC BIND 8.2.2 p6
  • ISC BIND 8.2.2 p7
  • ISC BIND 8.2.3
  • ISC BIND 8.2.3 Beta
  • ISC BIND 8.2.4
  • ISC BIND 8.2.5
  • ISC BIND 8.2.6
  • ISC BIND 8.2.7
  • ISC BIND 8.3.0 .0
  • ISC BIND 8.3.1
  • ISC BIND 8.3.2
  • ISC BIND 8.3.3
  • ISC BIND 8.3.4
  • Immunix Immunix OS 7+
  • MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 1.0.1
  • MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 6.0.0
  • MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 6.1.0
  • MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 7.0.0
  • MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 7.1.0
  • MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 7.2.0
  • MandrakeSoft Single Network Firewall 7.2.0
  • OpenPKG OpenPKG 1.0.0
  • OpenPKG OpenPKG 1.1.0
  • OpenPKG OpenPKG Current
  • RedHat Linux 5.2.0 alpha
  • RedHat Linux 5.2.0 i386
  • RedHat Linux 5.2.0 sparc
  • RedHat Linux 6.0.0
  • RedHat Linux 6.0.0 alpha
  • RedHat Linux 6.0.0 sparc
  • RedHat Linux 6.1.0 alpha
  • RedHat Linux 6.1.0 i386
  • RedHat Linux 6.1.0 sparc
  • RedHat Linux 6.2.0 E alpha
  • RedHat Linux 6.2.0 E i386
  • RedHat Linux 6.2.0 E sparc
  • RedHat Linux 6.2.0 alpha
  • RedHat Linux 6.2.0 i386
  • RedHat Linux 6.2.0 sparc
  • RedHat Linux 7.0.0 J alpha
  • RedHat Linux 7.0.0 J i386
  • RedHat Linux 7.0.0 J sparc
  • RedHat Linux 7.0.0 alpha
  • RedHat Linux 7.0.0 i386
  • RedHat Linux 7.0.0 sparc
  • S.u.S.E. Linux 6.0.0
  • S.u.S.E. Linux 6.1.0
  • S.u.S.E. Linux 6.1.0 alpha
  • S.u.S.E. Linux 6.2.0
  • S.u.S.E. Linux 6.3.0
  • S.u.S.E. Linux 6.3.0 alpha
  • S.u.S.E. Linux 6.4.0
  • S.u.S.E. Linux 6.4.0 alpha
  • S.u.S.E. Linux 6.4.0 ppc
  • S.u.S.E. Linux 7.3.0
  • S.u.S.E. Linux 7.3.0 ppc
  • S.u.S.E. Linux 7.3.0 sparc
  • S.u.S.E. Linux 8.0.0
  • S.u.S.E. Linux 8.1.0
  • S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 8.2.0
  • SCO eDesktop 2.4.0
  • SCO eServer 2.3.0
  • Trustix Secure Linux 1.2.0
  • Trustix Secure Linux 1.5.0
  • Trustix Trustix Secure Linux 1.0.0
  • Trustix Trustix Secure Linux 1.1.0

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