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TITLE:
Symantec Products Unspecified DNS Cache Poisoning Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14595

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14595/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Spoofing, Manipulation of data

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Symantec VelociRaptor 1.5
http://secunia.com/product/174/
Symantec Gateway Security 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/3104/
Symantec Gateway Security 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/876/

SOFTWARE:
Symantec Enterprise Firewall (SEF) 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/3587/
Symantec Enterprise Firewall (SEF) 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/514/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in various Symantec gateway
products, which can be exploited by malicious people to poison the
DNS cache.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the DNS
proxy (DNSd) when functioning as a DNS caching server or primary DNS
server and can be exploited to poison the DNS cache.

The vulnerability may be related to:
SA11888

The following products are affected:
* Symantec Gateway Security 5400 Series, v2.x
* Symantec Gateway Security 5300 Series, v1.0
* Symantec Enterprise Firewall, v7.0.x (Windows and Solaris)
* Symantec Enterprise Firewall v8.0 (Windows and Solaris)
* Symantec VelociRaptor, Model 1100/1200/1300 v1.5

NOTE: This has already been exploited in the wild.

SOLUTION:
The vendor has issued hotfixes.
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Symantec:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2005.03.15.html
http://service1.symantec.com/support/ent-gate.nsf/docid/2005030417285454

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA11888:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11888/

Internet Storm Center:
http://www.isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2005-03-04

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