Secunia Security Advisory - Citrix has acknowledged a vulnerability in NetScaler, which can be exploited by malicious people to poison the DNS cache.
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TITLE:
Citrix NetScaler DNS Cache Poisoning
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31221
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31221/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Spoofing
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Citrix Netscaler 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/16308/
DESCRIPTION:
Citrix has acknowledged a vulnerability in NetScaler, which can be
exploited by malicious people to poison the DNS cache.
The vulnerability is caused due to NetScaler not sufficiently
randomising the DNS query port number, which can be exploited to
poison the DNS cache.
The vulnerability is reported in NetScaler up to and including
version 8.1 build 57.3 when recursive DNS caching is activated or the
product is running as NAT device in front of a caching DNS server.
SOLUTION:
A fixed version is planned to be released on August, 4th.
http://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/results.asp?productID=21679
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Dan Kaminsky, IOActive
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX117991
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