[Fed-Talk] OS X DNS clients still unpatched?
[Fed-Talk] OS X DNS clients still unpatched?
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] OS X DNS clients still unpatched?
- From: Jason Levine <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:23:31 -0400
- Thread-topic: OS X DNS clients still unpatched?
Wow -- I didn't know that the DNS patch pushed out by Apple (three-plus
weeks later than every other provider) actually doesn't patch what might be
argued to be the more *critical* side of the DNS bug, the client side:
http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/newsbites.php?vol=10&issue=61#sID3
04
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&arti
cleId=9111363&source=rss_topic17
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/mac/showArticle.jhtml?articleID
=209901566
Given how tight-lipped Apple is with any security-related info, I won't
presume that this post will generate any official Apple response... but
Apple reps, know that this looks *BAD*, and makes it that much harder to
convince my folks here that using Macs on the desktop is a secure option.
Jason
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