Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1623-1 dnsmasq -- DNS cache poisoning
- Date Reported:
- 31 Jul 2008
- Affected Packages:
- dnsmasq
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-1447.
- More information:
-
Dan Kaminsky discovered that properties inherent to the DNS protocol lead to practical DNS cache poisoning attacks. Among other things, successful attacks can lead to misdirected web traffic and email rerouting.
This update changes Debian's dnsmasq packages to implement the recommended countermeasure: UDP query source port randomization. This change increases the size of the space from which an attacker has to guess values in a backwards-compatible fashion and makes successful attacks significantly more difficult.
This update also switches the random number generator to Dan Bernstein's SURF.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.35-1+etch4. Packages for alpha will be provided later.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.43-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your dnsmasq package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_2.35-1+etch4.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_2.35.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_2.35-1+etch4.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_2.35.orig.tar.gz
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_2.35-1+etch4_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_2.35-1+etch4_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_2.35-1+etch4_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_2.35-1+etch4_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_2.35-1+etch4_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_2.35-1+etch4_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_2.35-1+etch4_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_2.35-1+etch4_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_2.35-1+etch4_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dnsmasq/dnsmasq_2.35-1+etch4_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.