The glibc vulnerability was discovered this week and is capable of causing substantial outages. It’s caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in the way the libresolv library performs dual A/AAAA DNS queries. This makes it possible for a remote attacker to create a specifically rafted DNS response, causing libresolv to crash or execute code withoutRead more
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By NYI | Blog | Comments are Closed | 1 October, 2014 |
Post by: Mark Staudinger This blog is Part 2 of a two-part series Previously, we took a look at Shellshock and how it has wreaked havoc on thousands of computers over the past few weeks, making it easy for hackers to gain control over websites and computers systems. NYI designed its Fault Tolerant Web (FTW) serviceRead more
By NYI | Blog | Comments are Closed | 30 September, 2014 |
Post by: Mark Staudinger This blog is Part 1 of a two-part series The “Big 3” benefits to NYI’s Fault Tolerant Web (FTW) service are Speed, Stability, and Security. Depending on the day, one of these three might seem to be more important; but when a newly discovered vulnerability like ShellShock is turned into anRead more
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