DNSChanger Malware : Thousands May Lose Net Access On July 9th July

Thousands May Lose Net Access On July 9th July The warnings about the Internet problem have been splashed across Facebook and Google. Internet service providers have sent notices, and the FBI set up a special website. Thousands of Canadians could be among the hundreds of thousands of people aroun...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: bind-9.8.3-2.P1.fc16

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the DNS Domain Name System protocols. BIND includes a DNS server named, which resolves host names to IP addresses; a resolver library routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS; and tools for verifying that the DNS server ...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-1836

Heap-based buffer overflow in dns.cpp in InspIRCd 2.0.5 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DNS query that uses compression...

US Judge Postpones Death Sentence For Ghost Click Machines

A Federal Judge acceded to a request from the U.S. Attorney’s Office to extend the operation of Domain Name System servers that are the last lifeline to the Internet for hundreds of thousands of machines infected by the DNSChanger malware, following a bust of the group controlling the infected...

libvirt: unintended firewall port exposure after restarting libvirtd when defining a bridged forward-mode network

The networkReloadIptablesRules function in network/bridgedriver.c in libvirt before 0.9.9 does not properly handle firewall rules on bridge networks when libvirtd is restarted, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a 1 DNS or 2 DHCP query...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0024

MaraDNS before 1.3.07.12 and 1.4.x before 1.4.08 computes hash values for DNS data without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption by sending many crafted queries with the Recursion Desired RD bit s...

UBUNTU-CVE-2011-4600

The networkReloadIptablesRules function in network/bridgedriver.c in libvirt before 0.9.9 does not properly handle firewall rules on bridge networks when libvirtd is restarted, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a 1 DNS or 2 DHCP query...

squid: Invalid free by processing CNAME DNS record pointing to another CNAME record pointing to an empty A-record

The idnsGrokReply function in Squid before 3.1.16 does not properly free memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon abort via a DNS reply containing a CNAME record that references another CNAME record that contains an empty A record...

DNS cache poisoning attack on Google, Gmail, YouTube, Yahoo, Apple

DNS cache poisoning attack on Google, Gmail, YouTube, Yahoo, Apple Hacker with nickname AlpHaNiX deface Google, Gmail, Youtube, Yahoo, Apple etc domains of Democratic Republic of Congo. Hacker use strategy so-called DNS cache poisoning. DNS cache poisoning is a security or data integrity compromi...

Fedora Update for bind FEDORA-2011-16002

Check for the Version of bind OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for bind FEDORA-2011-16002 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms o...

bind: Remote denial of service against recursive servers via logging negative cache entry

query.c in ISC BIND 9.0.x through 9.6.x, 9.4-ESV through 9.4-ESV-R5, 9.6-ESV through 9.6-ESV-R5, 9.7.0 through 9.7.4, 9.8.0 through 9.8.1, and 9.9.0a1 through 9.9.0b1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assertion failure and named exit via unknown vectors related to recursive DNS...

PT-2011-2857 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.38 Description: The issue allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service by not providing a valid response to a DNS query. This can trigger improper handling of error data within a DNS resolver key,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: openldap-2.4.23-10.fc14

OpenLDAP is an open source suite of LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol applications and development tools. LDAP is a set of protocols for accessing directory services usually phone book style information, but other information is possible over the Internet, similar to the way DNS Domain...

Cyberwar between Israel and Turkish Hacker

Cyberwar between Israel and Turkish Hacker Turkish hacker "TurkGuvenligi " hijacked some 350 Israeli websites on Sunday evening, launching a Domain Name System DNS attack on at least seven high-profile websites including The Telegraph, Acer, National Geographic, UPS and Vodafone as well. Visitors...

bind: Specially constructed packet will cause named to exit

Unspecified vulnerability in ISC BIND 9 9.6.x before 9.6-ESV-R4-P3, 9.7.x before 9.7.3-P3, and 9.8.x before 9.8.0-P4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service named daemon crash via a crafted UPDATE request...

OpenJDK DNS cache poisoning by untrusted applets (6981922)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 23 and earlier, 5.0 Update 27 and earlier, and 1.4.229 earlier allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted Java applets to affect integrity via unknown vectors...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: bind-9.8.0-3.P1.fc15

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the DNS Domain Name System protocols. BIND includes a DNS server named, which resolves host names to IP addresses; a resolver library routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS; and tools for verifying that the DNS server ...

OpenJDK DNS cache poisoning by untrusted applets (6981922)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 23 and earlier, 5.0 Update 27 and earlier, and 1.4.229 earlier allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted Java applets to affect integrity via unknown vectors...

OpenJDK DNS cache poisoning by untrusted applets (6981922)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 23 and earlier, 5.0 Update 27 and earlier, and 1.4.229 earlier allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted Java applets to affect integrity via unknown vectors...

Amazon Web Hosting Company Is now Hosting DNS Service !

Web hosting company has announced that Amazon would have access to the Domain Name System DNS services, the game will give the DNS hosting as well. Thus, Route 53 will become part of the web hosting, pay-as-you-go DNS hosting service, which pays the amount of DNS issues can be resolved. DNS is th...