Another DNS Flaw Found, Patched
darthcamaro writes "Remember the big DNS flaw that Dan Kaminsky 'discovered' last year? Well, it looks like another flaw in DNS has just been patched. This time it's an item that affects DNSSEC, which was supposed to be the savior for the Kaminsky flaw. The good news, though, is that this time, the issue is relatively minor and DNS has already been patched. 'The flaw is specific to certain usages of DNSSEC,' Joao Damas, senior programming manager of the ISC told InternetNews. 'It is strongly advised that all BIND DNSSEC deployments update in case they are using the particular pattern affected (DSA keys in some cases) and to prevent coming across the problem in the future unexpectedly.'"
Is this somehow related to the bind DNS updates for ubuntu desktop that got pushed yesterday?
This is bad for all those who use DNSSEC. Both of them must be annoyed at the need to their software.
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That's not a "DNS flaw".
It's an OpenSSL bug that turned out to affect BIND.
these are BIND problems, and slashdot should call them that
Not that djbdns is absolutely bulletproof but Dan Bernstein spoke about this for dnssec awhile back:
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/forgery.html
and go wtih djbdns
Otherwise not a problem.
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"DNS Flaw"? Can we shoot for a bit more accuracy here on Slashdot, since we're all technical enough to understand the details? It's a flaw that affects BIND. And BIND != DNS. I shouldn't have to point that out...
this is an obvious troll with no information.
whoever modded this informative needs to be metamodded into oblivion
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Do you mean the one who has a J.D. from Columbia Law School, graduating in the top 10% of her class, who is also an accomplished author on constitutional law?
If I were to guess I would think the issue has to do with OpenSSL and routine EVP_VerifyFinal(), per http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20090107.txt
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> Remember the big DNS flaw that Dan Kaminsky 'discovered' last year?
Why emphasize "discovered" in sarcastic quote marks? Did he NOT discover it? Was it someone else?
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This is probably the funniest first post I've read. It's "original". Great work :D
D. J. Bernstein will probably use this as additional ammo against the Buggy Internet Name Daemon, and he'd tell you to use his DNS software instead. See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
qemu.exe -hda debian.qcow -redir udp:53::53 -snapshot -vnc 3
then you can run whatever DNS server you like (not necessarily Linux - Plan 9's DNS server doesn't suffer the sequence number guessing problem). Use snapshot once it's set up so that you can just switch off without worrying about syncing its fs, (or use the console to apply fs changes while in snapshot mode). Or use samba to attach to the Host FS and use that, or use AOE (though I've only tried that the other way round with Linux as the host).
Ironically *we* use this setup to run our Windows 2000 server for the Win32 software we have to use (Movie Magic & Final Draft). The laptops start QEMU up on boot. My EeePC runs Qemu at usable speeds, even without the kernel module kqemu.ko.
Booting Windows locked down is a real boon. I don't have to worry about LAN based malware attacks etc. or failed updates / installs.
Hope this helps :)
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