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Attackers are exploiting a recently patched high-severity DoS flaw, tracked as CVE-2016-2776, in the in the popular DNS software in BIND.

Last month a vulnerability in the popular DNS software BIND, tracked as CVE-2016-2776, has been patched. The flaw could be exploited by a remote attacker to trigger a DoS condition using specially crafted DNS packets. The high severity flaw initially discovered by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) was fixed with the release of BIND 9.9.9-P3, 9.10.4-P3 and 9.11.0rc3.

“Testing by ISC has uncovered a critical error condition which can occur when a nameserver is constructing a response. A defect in the rendering of message…

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Attackers are exploiting a recently patched high-severity DoS flaw in BIND