National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2008-1447
Orirignal release date: 2008-07-08
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    The DNS protocol, as implemented in (1) BIND 8 and 9 before 9.5.0-P1, 9.4.2-P1, and 9.3.5-P1; (2) Microsoft DNS in Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP1 and SP2; and other implementations allow remote attackers to spoof DNS traffic via certain cache poisoning techniques against recursive resolvers, related to insufficient randomness of DNS transaction IDs and source ports, aka "DNS Insufficient Socket Entropy Vulnerability."

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 7.5 (High)
    Range: network
    Authentication:
    Impact Type: avail,conf,int,sec_prot other="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    Ubuntu (Canonical)
    windows (Microsoft)
    enterprise_linux (redhat)
    Debian Linux (Debian)
    linux_advanced_workstation (redhat)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1447