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USN-491-1: Bind vulnerability

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USN-491-1: Bind vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
07/24/2007
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

ISC BIND 9 through 9.5.0a5 uses a weak random number generator during generation of DNS query ids when answering resolver questions or sending NOTIFY messages to slave name servers, which makes it easier for remote attackers to guess the next query id and perform DNS cache poisoning.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libdns22

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