Watch it: Multiple DNS implementations vulnerable to cachepoisoning

Randal, Phil prandal at herefordshire.gov.uk
Thu Jul 10 11:32:06 IST 2008


Have you made sure that in named.conf there are no

  query-source    port 53;	
  query-source-v6 port 53;

lines?

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Networks Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jason
Ede
Sent: 10 July 2008 11:15
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Subject: RE: Watch it: Multiple DNS implementations vulnerable to
cachepoisoning

I've patched some servers and they're showing good, but on one behind a
firewall its still showing as poor despite the update being run... Its
running Centos5.1

Jason


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner- 
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of shuttlebox
> Sent: 10 July 2008 09:42
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Watch it: Multiple DNS implementations vulnerable to 
> cache poisoning
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Ken A <ka at pacific.net> wrote:
> > They are probably not random enough. You can look at them with
> netstat or
> > lsof -i
>
> OK, it's the standard deviation that is key to the result. Unique 
> ports but all in a row for example is of course not good.
>
> I have now patched one server and it shows GOOD with a high std dev.
>
> /peter
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