National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4392

Overview

dnscache in Daniel J. Bernstein djbdns 1.05 does not prevent simultaneous identical outbound DNS queries, which makes it easier for remote attackers to spoof DNS responses, as demonstrated by a spoofed A record in the Additional section of a response to a Start of Authority (SOA) query.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.your.org/dnscache/

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.your.org/dnscache/

External Source: XF

Name: djbdns-soa-spoofing(48807)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/48807

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.your.org/dnscache/djbdns.pdf

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.your.org/dnscache/djbdns.pdf

External Source: BID

Name: 33818

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33818

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33855

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33855