[nsp-sec] List of vulnerable DNS resolvers

Steve Peters steven.peters at corp.aol.com
Wed Jul 23 16:10:07 EDT 2008


ACK 1668, 14855

Steve Peters
AOL - Network Security


On Jul 22, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Niels Provos wrote:

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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:
>
> http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113
>
> 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:
>
> 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:
>
>  http://www.monkey.org/~provos/dnspredict.py
>
> Instructions on how to use the tool can be found here:
>
> http://www.provos.org/index.php?/archives/42-DNS-and-Randomness.html
>
> Please, let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Thank you,
> Niels.
>
>
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