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28 Jul 2008 Sun Alert 240048 Update to Sun Alert 239392 - Security Vulnerability in the DNS Protocol may lead to DNS Cache Poisoning
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Product: Solaris 8 Operating System Solaris 9 Operating System Solaris 10 Operating System OpenSolaris

This is an update to Sun Alert 239392, originally issued July 8th, 2008. Information for Interim Security Relief (ISRs) have been added to the "Workaround" section.

A security vulnerability in the DNS protocol may allow remote unprivileged users to cause named(1M) to return incorrect addresses for Internet hosts, thereby redirecting end users to unintended hosts or services.

This issue is also referenced in the following documents:

US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#800113 at http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113
CVE-2008-1447 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1447

State: Workaround

First released: 28-Jul-2008

Sun Alert Link: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-240048-1

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