Vulnerability CVE-2014-4883


Published: 2014-11-27   Modified: 2014-11-28

Description:
resolv.c in the DNS resolver in uIP, and dns.c in the DNS resolver in lwIP 1.4.1 and earlier, does not use random values for ID fields and source ports of DNS query packets, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to conduct cache-poisoning attacks via spoofed reply packets.

Type:

CWE-345

(Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Lwip project -> LWIP 
Iwip project -> IWIP 

 References:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/210620
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lwip.git/commit/?id=9fb46e120655ac481b2af8f865d5ae56c39b831a

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