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>> FreeBSD Security Update Fixes BIND Cache Poisoning Vulnerability

Title : FreeBSD Security Update Fixes BIND Cache Poisoning Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2098
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1447
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-07-15

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A vulnerability has been identified in FreeBSD, 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

FreeBSD 6.3
FreeBSD 7.0

Solution

Apply patch for FreeBSD 6.3 :
# fetch http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-08:06/bind63.patch
# fetch http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-08:06/bind63.patch.asc

Apply patch for FreeBSD 7.0 :
# fetch http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-08:06/bind7.patch
# fetch http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-08:06/bind7.patch.asc

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2098
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-08:06.bind.asc

ChangeLog

2008-07-15 : Initial release

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