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Old 07-09-2008, 01:43 PM   #1
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DNS vulnerability [News]


Executive summary: upgrade your recursive name servers ASAP.

The official announcement:

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113

A good summary:

http://securosis.com/publications/DN...e-Overview.pdf

For BIND users (do note that several vendors who ship BIND already
have the upgraded version, for instance Debian and Gentoo):

http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind...resilience.php

For Microsoft users:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS08-037.mspx

For Cisco users:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707...0708-dns.shtml
 
Old 07-10-2008, 05:57 AM   #2
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I'm just amazed at how many people still run BIND8 - wow - I've been using BIND9 for so long I can't remember how long now...
 
  


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