DNS Forgery Pharming: Severe Flaw Found In Bind 9 DNS Software

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DNS Forgery Pharming: Severe Flaw Found In Bind 9 DNS Software

07-25-2007, 09:58 AM,

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DNS Forgery Pharming: Severe Flaw Found In Bind 9 DNS Software

Quote:Trusteer announced today that its CTO and security researcher Amit Klein has cracked BIND's random number generator and demonstrated a new attack affecting most Internet users. In this "DNS Forgery Pharming" attack fraudsters can remotely force consumers to visit fraudulent websites without compromising any computer or network device...

However, security researcher and Trusteer's CTO, Amit Klein, has discovered a severe flaw in BIND's implementation which allows fraudsters to efficiently predict generated random numbers without the need to control the route between the user and the DNS server. Using this vulnerability fraudsters can remotely forge DNS responses and direct users to fraudulent websites. The fraudulent website can steal the user's sign-in credentials or tamper with the user's communication with the website...

full article: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=5366

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