Apple Patches Kaminsky DNS Vulnerability 89
Alexander Burke writes "Apple has just released Security Update 2008-005, which patches BIND against the Kaminsky DNS poisoning issue. 'This update addresses the issue by implementing source port randomization to improve resilience against cache poisoning attacks. For Mac OS X v10.4.11 systems, BIND is updated to version 9.3.5-P1. For Mac OS X v10.5.4 systems, BIND is updated to version 9.4.2-P1.' It also closes the script-based local privilege escalation vulnerabilities, the most common examples of which were ARDAgent and SecurityAgent, and addresses other less-publicized security issues as well." A few days back we noted Apple's tardiness in fixing their corner of this Net-wide issue.
Good job apple (Score:3, Funny)
They might have been slow... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good job apple (Score:2, Funny)
Tons of video artists and mountain climbers publish on Apple servers.
Ahhhhhh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good job apple (Score:3, Funny)
Right, just like he said, nothing important is hosted on Apple servers.
(Side note: Mountain climbers???)
Re:They might have been slow... (Score:5, Funny)
They might have been slow with this patch, but boy does it look good!
No OS X 10.3 version. Less secure than the PF workaround. Lame.
Re:Maybe they took the time to get it right? (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe Apple had to take the extra time to get it right.
What, you mean, like, actually realize that any sort of hasty patch to a production system carries a risk of downtime or data loss which has to be weighed up against the risk posed by a security vulnerability?
Nah - never attribute to rationality that which can be satisfactorally explained by incompetence.
Re:leopard and syslogd (Score:5, Funny)
Re:leopard and syslogd (Score:2, Funny)
"Aha! A Slashdot article about an unrelated bug on Apple machines being fixed! Now that I have Apple's undivided attention, I'll mention a completely different bug in Slashdot's comment system! THAT'LL get it fixed!"
Re:Good job apple (Score:5, Funny)
I don't think "tons" will get you very far when it comes to statistics.
I don't know... have you ever priced out a ton of artists? Those things are really skinny and you really get your money's worth.
The biggest rip-off is a ton of IT guys. You get like 1, maybe 1-1/2 in the whole damned load.
Re:leopard and syslogd (Score:2, Funny)
This is why Mac OS X will never be ready for the desktop!