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Astaro Security Gateway DNS Cache Poisoning
Secunia Advisory: SA31354
Release Date: 2008-08-05
Popularity: 1,759 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Spoofing
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Astaro Security Gateway 7.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2008-1447


Description:
Astaro has acknowledged a vulnerability in Astaro Security Gateway, which can be exploited by malicious people to poison the DNS cache.

The vulnerability is caused due to the application not sufficiently randomising the DNS query port number, which can be exploited to poison the DNS cache.

Solution:
Apply Up2Date package 7.202.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Dan Kaminsky, IOActive

Original Advisory:
http://up2date.astaro.com/2008/08/up2date_7202_released.html


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