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Vulnerabilities in DNS Could Allow Spoofing (953230)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Windows : Microsoft Bulletins

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

9.4

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

4 years ago

Summary

This host is missing critical security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS08-037.

Insight

Insight

The flaws exist due to the DNS protocol fail to provide an adequate amount of entropy when performing DNS queries for Transaction ID and Source Port parameters that can be exploited to poison the DNS cache by inserting responses records into the DNS server or client cache.

Affected Software

Affected Software

- DNS Client/Server on Windows (All).

Solution

Solution

The vendor has released updates. Please see the references for more information.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)