Apple Patches Kaminsky DNS Vulnerability

Alexander Burke writes: "Apple has just released Security Update 2008-005, which patches BIND against the Kaminsky DNS poisoning issue. "This update addresses the issue by implementing source port randomization to improve resilience against cache poisoning attacks. For Mac OS X v10.4.11 systems, BIND is updated to version 9.3.5-P1. For Mac OS X v10.5.4 systems, BIND is updated to version 9.4.2-P1."

It also closes the script-based local privilege escalation vulnerabilities, the most common examples of which were ARDAgent and SecurityAgent, and addresses other less-publicized security issues as well."