A flaw reported in the handling of regular expressions means most DNS servers running on Linux or Unix are vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks, according to security experts
Denial of service
The flaw affects the version of BIND used on Linux and Unix systems, but doesn't affect the Windows version. BIND is the de facto standard DNS server software on Unix. Other programs using BIND's libdns library are also potentially vulnerable to the same attack.
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