[nsp-sec] List of vulnerable DNS resolvers

Zoe O'Connell zoe at hotchilli.com
Wed Jul 23 04:50:02 EDT 2008


ACK AS8419, thanks

On 23/07/2008 09:44, Lars Michael Jogback wrote:
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> * Niels Provos <niels at google.com> [2008-07-22 16:11:49]:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> as you know, the DNS flaw was leaked yesterday.   At the moment, ~70%
>> of all resolvers on the Internet use static or trivially predictable
>> source ports.   These resolvers/NAT devices need to be patched as soon
>> as possible.   The CERT reference for this flaw can be found at:
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>>  http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113
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>> The flaw allows adversaries to inject almost arbitrary A or NS records
>> on vulnerable resolvers, e.g. redirect traffic/proxy traffic of
>> legitimate domains.
>>
>> You can find a list of vulnerable resolvers and corresponding AS numbers at:
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>>  https://asn.cymru.com/nsp-sec/upload/1216767459.whois.txt
>>
>> These IP addresses are from recursive resolvers that showed very low
>> standard-deviation (<200) in their source ports according to
>> measurements conducted by David Dagon and myself over the last 7 days.
>>  I released a small Python tool that you can use to test your own
>> resolver.   You can download it from:
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>>   http://www.monkey.org/~provos/dnspredict.py
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>> Instructions on how to use the tool can be found here:
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>>  http://www.provos.org/index.php?/archives/42-DNS-and-Randomness.html
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>> Please, let me know if you have any questions.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>  Niels.
>>
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