Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in various Redhat products, which could be exploited by remote attackers to poison a vulnerable DNS cache. This issue is caused by errors in BIND. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2023

Affected Products

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
Red Hat Desktop (v. 3)
Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 2.1)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 2.1)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 2.1)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 (Itanium)

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
http://rhn.redhat.com/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2046
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0533.html

ChangeLog

2008-07-10 : Initial release

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