Re: CVE Request (ruby -- DNS spoofing vulnerability in resolv.rb)

["Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org>]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:

>   could you please allocate an another CVE id
> for the DNS spoofing vulnerability in Ruby resolv.rb code.
>
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/08/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-ruby/
> (part DNS spoofing vulnerability in resolv.rb)
>
> ...

> The transaction IDs are assigned in sequential (n+1 order) and the
> source ports are always the same.

Use CVE-2008-3905, to be filled in soon.

We're treating this as a distinct issue because this is *REALLY* bad
randomness within a particular implementation, besides the inherent
limitation of DNS when source ports are fixed.

- Steve