Security Vulnerability in Solaris 10 BIND: Susceptible to Cache Poisoning Attack



Category :Security
Release Phase :Resolved
Product :Solaris 10 Operating System  
Bug Id :6582717  
Date of Workaround Release :25-JUL-2007 
Date of Resolved Release :22-AUG-2007 


Impact

Remote unprivileged users may cause named(1M) to ultimately return incorrect addresses for Internet hosts thereby redirecting end users to unintended hosts and or services.

This issue is also referenced in the following documents:


Contributing Factors

This issue can occur in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

x86 Platform

Note: Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 are not impacted by this issue.

Only systems with the BIND named(1M) service enabled are impacted by this issue. To verify if the DNS service instance is enabled under smf(5), use the svcs(1) command as follows:

    $ svcs -l svc:/network/dns/server:default | grep enabled
    enabled      true

 


Symptoms

There are no reliable symptoms that would indicate the described issue has occurred.


Workaround

There is no workaround.  Please see the Resolution section below.


Resolution

This issue is addressed in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

x86 Platform

Note: The resolution provides BIND 9.3.4-P1 as provided by the custodians of BIND; the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC).

After the patch has been installed, it is recommended that BIND administrators familiarize themselves with the "/usr/share/doc/bind/migration.txt" document.

Further information on BIND 9.3 is available in the BIND 9.3 Advanced Reference Manual (ARM) available on the ISC web site at:




Modification History


Date: 08-AUG-2007
  • Updated Relif/Workaround section

Date: 22-AUG-2007
  • State: Resolved
  • Updated Contributing Factors, Relief/Workaround, and Resolution sections.

Date: 04-SEP-2007
  • Updated Resolution section



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Article ID : 201539
Article Type : Sun Alert
Last reviewed : 2007-09-04
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