ISC BIND TSIG Zone Transfer Denial Of Service Vulnerability

BID:17692

Info

ISC BIND TSIG Zone Transfer Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 17692
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 25 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 26 2006 07:31PM
Credit: This issue was discovered by the PROTOS DNS Test Suite, which was developed by the Oulu University Secure Programming Group (OUSPG).
Vulnerable: ISC BIND 9.3.2
ISC BIND 9.3.1
ISC BIND 9.3
ISC BIND 9.2.3
ISC BIND 9.2.2
ISC BIND 9.2.1
+ Caldera OpenUnix 8.0
+ MandrakeSoft Single Network Firewall 7.2
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.2
+ SCO Unixware 7.1.3
ISC BIND 9.2
+ HP HP-UX 11.11
+ HP HP-UX 11.11
+ HP HP-UX 11.0
+ HP HP-UX 11.0
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.2
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.2
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.1 ia64
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.1 ia64
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.1
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.1
+ Redhat Linux 7.3 i386
+ Redhat Linux 7.3
+ Redhat Linux 7.3
ISC BIND 9.1.3
+ Redhat Linux 7.2 ia64
+ Redhat Linux 7.2 i686
+ Redhat Linux 7.2 i586
+ Redhat Linux 7.2 i386
+ Redhat Linux 7.2
+ SuSE Linux 8.0 i386
+ SuSE Linux 8.0
+ SuSE Linux 7.3 sparc
+ SuSE Linux 7.3 ppc
+ SuSE Linux 7.3 i386
+ SuSE Linux 7.3
ISC BIND 9.1.2
+ SuSE Linux 7.2 i386
+ SuSE Linux 7.2
ISC BIND 9.1.1
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.0 ppc
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.0
ISC BIND 9.1
+ Caldera OpenUnix 8.0
+ HP Secure OS software for Linux 1.0
+ Redhat Linux 7.1 ia64
+ Redhat Linux 7.1 i386
+ Redhat Linux 7.1 alpha
+ Redhat Linux 7.1
+ SuSE Linux 7.1 x86
+ SuSE Linux 7.1 sparc
+ SuSE Linux 7.1 ppc
+ SuSE Linux 7.1 alpha
+ SuSE Linux 7.1
ISC BIND 9.0.1
ISC BIND 9.0
+ SuSE Linux 7.0 sparc
+ SuSE Linux 7.0 ppc
+ SuSE Linux 7.0 i386
+ SuSE Linux 7.0 alpha
+ SuSE Linux 7.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

ISC BIND TSIG Zone Transfer Denial Of Service Vulnerability

ISC BIND is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly handle malformed TSIG (Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS) replies.

To exploit this issue, attackers must be able to send messages with a correct TSIG during a zone transfer. This limits the potential for remote exploits significantly.

An attacker can exploit this issue to crash the affected service, effectively denying service to legitimate users.

Exploit / POC

ISC BIND TSIG Zone Transfer Denial Of Service Vulnerability

The PROTOS DNS Test Suite, which was developed by the Oulu University Secure Programming Group (OUSPG), may be used to trigger this issue.

Solution / Fix

ISC BIND TSIG Zone Transfer Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Solution:

Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected]:[email protected]

References

ISC BIND TSIG Zone Transfer Denial Of Service Vulnerability

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