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CVE-2007-3152

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2007-06-09	c-ares -- DNS Cache Poisoning Vulnerability

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CVE-2007-3152 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2007-3152
Phase	Assigned(20070611)

Description

c-ares before 1.4.0 uses a predictable seed for the random number generator for the DNS Transaction ID field, which might allow remote attackers to spoof DNS responses by guessing the field value.

References

Source	Reference
CONFIRM	http://cool.haxx.se/cvs.cgi/curl/ares/CHANGES?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
BID	24386
OSVDB	37171
SECUNIA	25579
XF	cares-transactionid-dns-spoofing(34979)