CVE-2008-1637 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-1637 at MITRE

Description

PowerDNS Recursor before 3.1.5 uses insufficient randomness to calculate (1) TRXID values and (2) UDP source port numbers, which makes it easier for remote attackers to poison a DNS cache, related to (a) algorithmic deficiencies in rand and random functions in external libraries, (b) use of a 32-bit seed value, and (c) choice of the time of day as the sole seeding information.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 375400 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2008:012, published Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:38:16 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:25:48 2023