From owner-freebsd-audit Fri Dec 8 16:15:47 2000 From owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 16:15:45 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from puck.firepipe.net (mcut-b-167.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.209.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE3DA37B400 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 16:15:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by puck.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4CFD818CF; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 19:15:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 19:15:44 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Mike Silbersack Cc: Will Andrews , freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bitchx/ircd DNS overflow demonstration (fwd) Message-ID: <20001208191544.U572@puck.firepipe.net> Reply-To: Will Andrews References: <20001208190004.S572@puck.firepipe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from silby@silby.com on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 06:10:39PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 Sender: will@puck.firepipe.net Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 06:10:39PM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: > In any case, if you've already audited the handling of DNS in programs in > the FreeBSD base system, I apologize. The info the advisory is clearly > useless to you. Oh, I'm so sorry. I misread your original message.. I thought you were asking us to review BitchX/ircd code. But clearly you meant to provide a pointer as to how to audit the base system for problems in DNS parsing. Deep apologies, please ignore my outburst. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message