From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 29 15:56:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E4AA37B719 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:56:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 70643 invoked by uid 100); 29 Mar 2001 23:56:53 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15043.52165.798633.506706@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:56:53 -0600 To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: questions@freebsd.org, bsilverstrim@tsd.k12.pa.us Subject: Re: named core dump In-Reply-To: <125915519@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Emmerton types: > 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.) Didn't the most recent named get MFC'ed into 3-STABLE? If so, that upgrade is probably easier, and just as effective. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message