CVE-2007-2930: cryptographically weak DNS query IDs (BIND 8)

BIND 8 generates cryptographically weak DNS query IDs which could allow a remote attacker to poison DNS caches.

CVE: CVE-2007-2930   VU#927905
Posting date: 29 Aug 2007
Program Impacted: BIND
Versions affected: All versions of BIND8
Severity: Medium
Exploitable: Remotely

Description:

ISC BIND 8 generates cryptographically weak DNS query IDs which could allow a remote attacker to poison DNS caches.

This bug only affects outgoing queries, generated by BIND 8 to answer
questions as a resolver, or when it is looking up data for internal
uses, such as when sending NOTIFYs to slave name servers.

The DNS query id generation is vulnerable to analysis which provides a
high chance of guessing the next query id. This can be used to perform
cache poisoning by an attacker.

All users are encouraged to upgrade.

Impact:

A remote attacker could predict DNS query IDs and respond with arbitrary answers, thus poisoning DNS caches.

Workarounds:

None.

Active exploits:

None known at this time.

Solution:

                Upgrade or Patch

This issue is addressed in ISC BIND 8.4.7-P1, available as patch that can be applied to BIND 8.4.7.

The more definitive solution is to upgrade to BIND 9. BIND 8 is being
declared "end of life" by ISC due to multiple architectural issues.
Please see ISC's website at https://www.isc.org/bind/ for additional information and tools.

Note that BIND 8.x.x is End of Life as of August 2007.

Users who obtain BIND 8 from their operating system vendor should see
the systems affected portion of this document for a partial list of
affected vendors.

Acknowledgements: Thanks to Amit Klein from Trusteer (www.trusteer.com) for reporting this.

Related Documents:

See our BIND Security Matrix for a complete listing of Security Vulnerabilities and versions affected.

If you'd like more information on our Forum or product support please visit www.isc.org/support.

Do you still have questions?   Questions regarding this advisory should go to security-officer@isc.org

Note: ISC patches only currently supported versions. When possible we indicate EOL versions affected.

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This Knowledge Base article https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00922 is the complete and official security advisory document.

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