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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.