Subject: Re: DNS Cache Poisoning vulnerability (CVE-2008-1447, VU#800113)

Re: DNS Cache Poisoning vulnerability (CVE-2008-1447, VU#800113)

From: Josh Carroll <josh.carroll_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:33:27 -0400

> Can any security experts who are aware of this issue shed some light on this?

My understanding was that this particular CERT was due to a
predictable source port. So the TXID being random is good, but the
source port being non-random (or pseudo-random) is the problem.

More details are in the CERT/CVE itself.

Josh
Received on 2008-07-14