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Title: SECURITY: Critical DNS vulnerability revealed
Post by: Trippy on July 08, 2008, 05:17:30 PM
For you sysadmins out there that haven't already seen the CERT alert here's a good summary of the situation. (http://securosis.com/2008/07/08/dan-kaminsky-discovers-fundamental-issue-in-dns-massive-multivendor-patch-released/)


Title: Re: SECURITY: Critical DNS vulnerability revealed
Post by: Ookii on July 08, 2008, 08:48:23 PM
And there goes the internet.


Title: Re: SECURITY: Critical DNS vulnerability revealed
Post by: JWIV on July 09, 2008, 04:15:29 AM
And there goes the internet.

At least this is relatively coordinated as opposed to say OpenSSH's love of announcing things with no details and lots of FUD.



Title: Re: SECURITY: Critical DNS vulnerability revealed
Post by: Yegolev on July 11, 2008, 05:20:41 PM
I don't see my OS in the list, so that's something.


Title: Re: SECURITY: Critical DNS vulnerability revealed
Post by: Trippy on July 21, 2008, 10:30:33 PM
Some spilled the beans on the actual vulnerability so if you haven't patched/updated by now you better get a move on.