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List:       oss-security
Subject:    Re: [oss-security] CVE Request (ruby -- DNS spoofing vulnerability
From:       "Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus ! mitre ! org>
Date:       2008-09-16 0:59:40
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.51.0809152058040.6953 () faron ! mitre ! org
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On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Tomas Hoger wrote:

> > We're treating this as a distinct issue because this is *REALLY* bad
> > randomness within a particular implementation, besides the inherent
> > limitation of DNS when source ports are fixed.
>
> Applying this rule, separate id should probably be used for PyDNS [1]
> [2] and adns [3] as well, at they both suffer from the similar flaws -
> use predictable transactions ids and source port.

CVE-2008-4099 - PyDNS

CVE-2008-4100 - adns

- Steve
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