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Date:      Wed, 31 Jan 2001 02:12:59 -0500
From:      Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu>
To:        Donald Burr <dburr@borg-cube.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Is FreeBSD susceptible to BIND vulnerability?
Message-ID:  <01013102125901.78918@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101302133440.22712-100000@borg-cube.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101302133440.22712-100000@borg-cube.com>

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At the very bottom of the advisory, it says no.  Though the advisory 
seems to say Bind 8.2.3 has been released (not just beta) and the 
FreeBSD response seems to say that it hasn't.  I dunno, I just read the 
advisory, I don't run BIND.

						Tim

On Wednesday January 31, 2001 00:37, Donald Burr wrote:
> There was an advisory about BIND posted to Slashdot today:
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/30/0435256&mode=thread
>
> I am concerned -- does this affect FreeBSD?  I am running a somewhat
> 4.2-STABLE (buildworld done around Dec 5 of last year).  The BIND
> version string is:
>
> Jan 30 21:27:11 borg-cube named[20011]: starting.  named 8.2.3-T5B
> Mon Sep 25 23:37:47 GMT 2000
> jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/named
>
> If this affects me, has this problem been corrected in the latest
> 4.2-STABLE code?  (if so, then I will cvsup and make buildworld RIGHT
> NOW!!!) :)
>
> Please let me know, thanks!


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