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Date:      Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:37:28 -0500 (EST)
From:      Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To:        Bart Silverstrim <bsilverstrim@tsd.k12.pa.us>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: named core dump
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103291235270.19784-100000@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <004d01c0b871$651a1fc0$8701010a@tsd.k12.pa.us>

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On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> Has anyone had a problem with named crashing sporadically?  I have a
> coredump file of it, if someone thinks that they could analyze it to find
> what is happening. it's not a heavily loaded system, nor is it getting a lot
> of requests...
> 
> it's a 3.4-RELEASE, generic i386 kernel system
> named is 8.2.2-p5-noesw

named core dumping means that someone is (possibly
successfully) exploiting a vulnerability in named, which could result in
root access to your machine.

You should upgrade to 4.2-STABLE as soon as possible!  (Installing from
ports is not advisable, since 3.x isn't supported by ports anymore, and
the ports version of named doesn't follow the same conventions wrt file
locations that the version included with the tbase system does.)

--
MAtt Emmerton


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