Security Vulnerability in BIND 8 May Allow Cache Poisoning Attack



Category :Security
Release Phase :Resolved
Product :Solaris 9 Operating System
Solaris 8 Operating System  
Bug Id :6596938  
Date of Workaround Release :18-SEP-2007 
Date of Resolved Release :15-OCT-2007 


Impact

A security vulnerability in BIND 8 may allow remote unprivileged users the ability to cause named(1M) to return incorrect addresses for Internet hosts, thereby redirecting end users to unintended hosts or services.

This issue is also referenced in the following documents:

CERT-US VU#927905 at http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/927905

CVE-2007-2930 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2930


Contributing Factors

This issue can occur in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

x86 Platform

Note: Solaris 10 is not impacted by this issue.

Only systems with the BIND named(1M) service enabled are impacted by this issue. To verify if BIND is running on a system, the following command can be used:

    $ ps -e | grep in.named && echo "BIND is running"

 


Symptoms

There are no reliable symptoms that would indicate the described issue has occurred.


Workaround

There is no workaround. Please see the Resolution section below.


Resolution

This issue is addressed in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

x86 Platform




Modification History


Date: 15-OCT-2007
  • State: Resolved
  • Updated Contributing Factors, Relief/Workaround, and Resolution sections



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Article ID : 200859
Article Type : Sun Alert
Last reviewed : 2008-02-18
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