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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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