Re: [dns-operations] new DNS forwarder vulnerability

2014-03-14 Thread David Dagon
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 09:45:25AM -0400, Mark Allman wrote: > - We have found 7--9% of the open resolver population---or 2-3 million > boxes---to be vulnerable to this cache poisoning attack. (The > variance is from different runs of our experiments.) I've noted that ~30% of the open

[dns-operations] new DNS forwarder vulnerability

2014-03-14 Thread Mark Allman
Just a quick note to let folks know about a new vulnerability we have found in some low-rent DNS forwarders---which we have been calling the 'preplay attack'. The finding is that when the vulnerable open resolvers receive a DNS response they just look at the query string in the response to see if