CVE-2002-2211 Other in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can poison DNS cache via birthday attack spoofing, affecting BIND 4 and 8 recursive resolvers.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2002-2211?

CVE-2002-2211 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Isc Bind, published on 23 May 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

BIND 4 and BIND 8, when resolving recursive DNS queries for arbitrary hosts, allows remote attackers to conduct DNS cache poisoning via a birthday attack that uses a large number of open queries for the same resource record (RR) combined with spoofed responses, which increases the possibility of successfully spoofing a response in a way that is more efficient than brute force methods.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-2211?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Isc Bind.

How do I fix CVE-2002-2211?

No fix has been published for CVE-2002-2211 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2002-2211 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-2211 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Isc Bind vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-566q-9c9p-9jc4.

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