Re: Is my old RedHat computer doomed?

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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).