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Date:      Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:48:11 -0500 (EST)
From:      Security Officer <security@sinister.com>
To:        "S(pork)" <spork@super-g.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Serious BIND resolver problem. (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.961119174603.12421G-100000@dark.sinister.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.92.961119151129.1956A-100000@super-g.inch.com>

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On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, S(pork) wrote:

> >From your friendly neighborhood paranoia victim comes yet another loaded
> question...
> 
> I got this little advisory (thankfully without an exploit) today, and it's
> got me all worried.  It's a problem in the whole gethostbyname call that
> allows (supposedly) local and remote users to gain root access using a
> variety of programs that rely on the gethostbyname call.  So I downloaded
> BIND-4.9.3-REL which fixes all of this; and then I read the README in the

I think you want 4.9.5


> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 22:54:03 -0700
> From: Oliver Friedrichs <oliver@secnet.com>
> To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
> Subject: Serious BIND resolver problem.
> 


> 
> We recommend upgrading to the latest release of BIND which solves this
> problem due to the incorporation of IPv6 address support.
> 
> The latest official release of BIND is availible at:
> 
> ftp.vix.com in the directory /pub/bind/release/4.9.5
> 
> 


--Dr. Who

System Administrator
Sinister Networks






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