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Medium severity6.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 8, 2008· Updated Apr 23, 2026

CVE-2008-1447

CVE-2008-1447

Description

The DNS protocol, as implemented in (1) BIND 8 and 9 before 9.5.0-P1, 9.4.2-P1, and 9.3.5-P1; (2) Microsoft DNS in Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP1 and SP2; and other implementations allow remote attackers to spoof DNS traffic via a birthday attack that uses in-bailiwick referrals to conduct cache poisoning against recursive resolvers, related to insufficient randomness of DNS transaction IDs and source ports, aka "DNS Insufficient Socket Entropy Vulnerability" or "the Kaminsky bug."

Affected products

3
  • Isc/Bind3 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.2.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

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