# CVE-2008-1447: The DNS protocol, as implemented in (1) BIND 8 and 9 before 9.5.0-P1, 9.4.2-P1, and 9.3.5-P1; (2) Microsoft DNS in Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 3 on Exploit-DB, 2 Metasploit modules, 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2008-07-08 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

The DNS protocol, as implemented in (1) BIND 8 and 9 before 9.5.0-P1, 9.4.2-P1, and 9.3.5-P1; (2) Microsoft DNS in Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP1 and SP2; and other implementations allow remote attackers to spoof DNS traffic via a birthday attack that uses in-bailiwick referrals to conduct cache poisoning against recursive resolvers, related to insufficient randomness of DNS transaction IDs and source ports, aka "DNS Insufficient Socket Entropy Vulnerability" or "the Kaminsky bug."

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## References

- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020438
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00402.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31137
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31430
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MIMG-7DWR4J
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31169
- http://www.phys.uu.nl/~rombouts/pdnsd.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020702
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2052/references
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020561
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0014.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141879471518471&w=2
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020578
- http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-08:06.bind.asc
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9627
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020802
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=123324863916385&w=2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30131
- http://www.openbsd.org/errata42.html#013_bind
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31236
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020651
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6122
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6123
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6130
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/spoof/dns/bailiwicked_domain.rb
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/spoof/dns/bailiwicked_host.rb
- https://github.com/hamlasiraj/metasploit-bailiwicked_domain-fix

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