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Date:      Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:09:53 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Scott Hyjek <SHyjek@rbmg.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Question: bind / named problem
Message-ID:  <20010212160953.A39102@mollari.cthul.hu>
In-Reply-To: <C7C1A68CCDF6D311BFE000508B95B48C02E5250C@apollo.rbmg.com>; from SHyjek@rbmg.com on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:44:25AM -0500
References:  <C7C1A68CCDF6D311BFE000508B95B48C02E5250C@apollo.rbmg.com>

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On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:44:25AM -0500, Scott Hyjek wrote:
> Any information or guidance would be appreciated. We've experienced a
> problem on our external DNS twice now (last thursday and Sunday). Name
> resolution ceases and we receive the following:=20
> quentin/kernel: pid 104 (named), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)=
=20
> This server has run fine for many many months and we've only recently (as
> above) encountered this problem. No hardware or software changes have
> occured.=20
> Lastly, we're aware of the current Bind vulnerability and plan to upgrade=
 to
> eliminate it. However, we'd like some guidance (if any is available) as to
> how to determine if we've been exploited in such a manner. Thanks.=20
> <scott>

An exploit is available and being used in the wild.  You may have been
attacked, it's not possible to say with certainty.

Kris

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