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Re: Emergency DNS Patch Still Vulnerable, Proves Russian Physicist


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:25:06 -0400

On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:59:15 BST, n3td3v said:
Reports coming out of blog land and onto n3td3v - Google Groups:

Emergency DNS Patch Still Vulnerable, Proves Russian Physicist

*yawn*.  It was already *known* that even after patching, the vulnerability
was still there.  All the port-randomization stuff did was make it an
order of 64K or so harder to exploit.  That's why DNSSEC was recommended
as the *real* fix for this problem.

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