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DNS cache poisoning fix
Friday, July 11th, 2008 by ZonkerIf you’re running Bind on openSUSE or SUSE Linux Enterprise, you want to install the update that was pushed out recently. This was pushed out on opensuse-security-announce (which I’m sure everybody is subscribed to, right? Cause these announcements are very infrequent and fairly important…) but I wanted to mention it here as well…
In case you hadn’t read about it already, there’s a major DNS flaw that leaves DNS implementations vulnerable to cache poisoning (essentially giving the wrong IP address for a domain name, which makes it possible to redirect queries to the wrong host — which opens up a whole slew of possible mischief).
We’ve issued a fix for openSUSE 10.2, 10.3, and 11.0, as well as SLES/SLED 10, and a number of other versions.

