Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1619-1 python-dns -- DNS response spoofing
- Date Reported:
- 27 Jul 2008
- Affected Packages:
- python-dns
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 490217.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-1447, CVE-2008-4099. - More information:
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Multiple weaknesses have been identified in PyDNS, a DNS client implementation for the Python language. Dan Kaminsky identified a practical vector of DNS response spoofing and cache poisoning, exploiting the limited entropy in a DNS transaction ID and lack of UDP source port randomization in many DNS implementations. Scott Kitterman noted that python-dns is vulnerable to this predictability, as it randomizes neither its transaction ID nor its source port. Taken together, this lack of entropy leaves applications using python-dns to perform DNS queries highly susceptible to response forgery.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies this class of weakness as CVE-2008-1447 and this specific instance in PyDNS as CVE-2008-4099.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.3.0-5.2+etch1.
We recommend that you upgrade your python-dns package.
- Fixed in:
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Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-dns/python-dns_2.3.0.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-dns/python-dns_2.3.0-5.2+etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-dns/python-dns_2.3.0-5.2+etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-dns/python-dns_2.3.0-5.2+etch1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-dns/python-dns_2.3.0-5.2+etch1_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.