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perl-Net-DNS security issue

Published Jun 25, 2007

Description

Header.pm in Net::DNS before 0.60, a Perl module, (1) generates predictable sequence IDs with a fixed increment and (2) can use the same starting ID for all child processes of a forking server, which allows remote attackers to spoof DNS responses, as originally reported for qpsmtp and spamassassin.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (35)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Jun 25, 2007
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Jun 25, 2007
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Dec 22, 2006