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Posted on December 13, 2018 at 10:21 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

If you aren’t sure, believe me, you aren’t running a DNS server.

If you are running a DNS server, @SimonZerafa wrote to me and suggested I nudge you about CVE-2018-8626. It’s a bug that lets bad programs bring DNS servers to a crawl.

Windows Patches/Security CVE-2018-8626

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