Re: Is my old RedHat computer doomed?

On 26 Jul 2008, Nick Kew outgrape:

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:11:22 +0000 (UTC)
Kevin Buzzard <buzzard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But now I am a bit concerned that it probably *is*
broke, and quite seriously broke, because of the recent DNS resolving
issue thing and reports yesterday that good sploits are now
circulating in the wild.

http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ is your friend.

Lightweight replacements for the components affected. From the man who
pointed out the current DNS bug as far back as 2001

My understanding is that he pointed out what people already knew and
worked around the lack-of-randomness problem (which nobody else bothered
to do, at least not enough). He wasn't aware of this specific attack
(nobody was).
.

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