Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:56:53 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, bsilverstrim@tsd.k12.pa.us Subject: Re: named core dump Message-ID: <15043.52165.798633.506706@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <125915519@toto.iv>
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Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> 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. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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