Potential 0-Day Vulnerability For BIND 9 187
Morty writes "BIND, the popular DNS server software, has been crashing all over the Internet. The root cause is believed to be a 0-day vulnerability in BIND's resolver. The ISC has issued an alert. Quoting: 'An as-yet unidentified network event caused BIND 9 resolvers to cache an invalid record, subsequent queries for which could crash the resolvers with an assertion failure. ISC is working on determining the ultimate cause by which a record with this particular inconsistency is cached. At this time we are making available a patch which makes named recover gracefully from the inconsistency, preventing the abnormal exit.'"
To the Red Phone! (Score:4, Funny)
Alert DJB at once!
Re:10 years ago (Score:4, Funny)
It's hard to go wrong with DJB*.
Re:10 years ago (Score:5, Funny)
APK's monolithic hosts file (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A confusing summary on /., let me try to do bet (Score:4, Funny)
Your understated discretion just takes my breath away.