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adns, bind9 and 5 more products — security advisory
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."
- Products
- adns, bind9, dnsmasq, dnspython, libnet-dns-perl, refpolicy, udns
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.2-1, 0.63-2, 1.4-2, 1.7.1-1, 1:9.5.0.dfsg-5, 2.43-1, 2:0.0.20080702-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2008-1447
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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."
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1447
adns
Fixed versions: 1.4-2
adns
Fixed versions: 1.4-2
adns
Fixed versions: 1.4-2
bind9
Fixed versions: 1:9.5.0.dfsg-5
bind9
Fixed versions: 1:9.5.0.dfsg-5
bind9
Fixed versions: 1:9.5.0.dfsg-5
dnsmasq
Fixed versions: 2.43-1
dnsmasq
Fixed versions: 2.43-1
dnsmasq
Fixed versions: 2.43-1
dnspython
Fixed versions: 1.7.1-1
dnspython
Fixed versions: 1.7.1-1
dnspython
Fixed versions: 1.7.1-1
libnet-dns-perl
Fixed versions: 0.63-2
libnet-dns-perl
Fixed versions: 0.63-2
libnet-dns-perl
Fixed versions: 0.63-2
refpolicy
Fixed versions: 2:0.0.20080702-1
refpolicy
Fixed versions: 2:0.0.20080702-1
refpolicy
Fixed versions: 2:0.0.20080702-1
udns
Fixed versions: 0.2-1
udns
Fixed versions: 0.2-1
udns
Fixed versions: 0.2-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T18:01:17.180382743Z",
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