DNS Bug
This is not really about C/C++, but it is a lesson in the ubiquity of bugs, so if you or your company uses DNS you probably want to make sure this is known. And if you are a hacker you'll probably want to following this -- but then you may already know.
A flaw has apparently been found in the DNS system that most of the Internet uses. (Secure DNS doesn’t have this problem, but it’s used by very few people.) It’s not just a problem with a particular implementation of DNS. It’s a problem that every single implementation apparently suffers from. It’s very very scary and just about every vendor has pushed out a fix ahead of the release of the details of the problem. I’ve spent some of today updating every single machine that I have have access to. You should do the same.
I've had bugs that existed undetected in code for more than two years, and then someone did something different.
A flaw has apparently been found in the DNS system that most of the Internet uses. (Secure DNS doesn’t have this problem, but it’s used by very few people.) It’s not just a problem with a particular implementation of DNS. It’s a problem that every single implementation apparently suffers from. It’s very very scary and just about every vendor has pushed out a fix ahead of the release of the details of the problem. I’ve spent some of today updating every single machine that I have have access to. You should do the same.
I've had bugs that existed undetected in code for more than two years, and then someone did something different.
