The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) today issued a temporary patch for an as-yet unidentified flaw in the DNS BIND 9 platform that is causing servers around the Internet to crash.
Chaouki Bekrar, CEO and head of research at VUPEN, says the fixes don't appear to repair the actual vulnerability, but rather prevent the DNS servers from crashing when handling the error generated by the bug.

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