New DoS Vulnerability Affects All Versions of BIND 9
ISC is reporting that a new, remotely exploitable vulnerability has been found in all versions of BIND 9. A specially crafted dynamic update packet will make BIND die with an assertion error. There is an exploit in the wild and there are no access control workarounds. Red Hat claims that the exploit does not affect BIND servers that do not allow dynamic updates, but the ISC post refutes that. This is a high-priority vulnerability and DNS operators will want to upgrade BIND to the latest patch level.
Via: Slashdot
Nmap 5 Released
Nmap Security Scanner version 5 has been released. Significant performance improvements were made, and many scripts have been added. Nmap can now log into Windows a system and perform local checks such as Conficker detection.
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