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Date:      Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:24:18 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
Cc:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>, stable@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 7.1 and BIND exploit 
Message-ID:  <20080721202418.7CF9B4500E@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:38:46 %2B0200." <200807212138.46703.max@love2party.net> 

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> From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:38:46 +0200
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> 
> On Monday 21 July 2008 21:14:22 Doug Barton wrote:
> > Brett Glass wrote:
> > | Everyone:
> > |
> > | Will FreeBSD 7.1 be released in time to use it as an upgrade to
> > | close the BIND cache poisoning hole?
> >
> > Brett, et al,
> >
> > I'll make this simple for you. If you have a server that is running
> > BIND, update BIND now. If you need to use the ports, that's fine, just
> > do it now. Make sure that you are not specifying a port via any
> > query-source* options in named.conf, and that any firewall between
> > your named process and the outside world does keep-state on outgoing
> > UDP packets.
> 
> ... and that any NAT device employs at least a somewhat random port 
> allocation mechanism - pf provides this.

And, if you are not sure how good a job it does (and I am not), you
should use the OARC test to check how well it works:
dig +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT

If the result is not "GOOD", it's not good enough.

You can test a remote server by adding "@remote-server" to the dig
command. The server may be specified by name or IP address.

Don't forget that ANY server that caches data, including an end system
running a caching only server is vulnerable.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4  EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751

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