Bug puts net’s most popular DNS app in Bind
Makers of Bind have warned of a security vulnerability in versions of the domain name resolution application that could allow attackers to trick servers into returning unauthorized results.
The bug in the Berkeley Internet Name Domain program surfaces only when the DNSSEC security implementation is enabled and the name server accepts queries from the internet at large, a designation known as recursive. The combination of name servers being both recursive and using DNSSEC to validate records is rare, according to this advisory from the Internet Systems Consortium, which maintains Bind.