Description
c-ares before 1.4.0 uses a predictable seed for the random number generator for the DNS Transaction ID field, which might allow remote attackers to spoof DNS responses by guessing the field value.
References
- cares-transactionid-dns-spoofing(34979) vdb-entry
- 37171 vdb-entry
- 25579 third-party-advisory
- http://cool.haxx.se/cvs.cgi/curl/ares/CHANGES?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
- 24386 vdb-entry