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Date:      Tue, 2 Jul 2002 21:24:22 -0400
From:      Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
To:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CERT Advisory CA-2002-18 OpenSSH Vulnerabilities in Challenge Response
Message-ID:  <20020703012422.GC9314@pir.net>
In-Reply-To: <xzpbs9p8v8b.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <NEBBIGLHNDFEJMMIEGOOGEHGFCAA.peter@skyrunner.net> <xzpk7od8vwt.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200207030109.g6319Ufb008965@apollo.backplane.com> <xzpbs9p8v8b.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> probably said:
> As far as I know, named itself is not vulnerable, but libbind contains
> the bug, and software that uses libbind's gethost*() (nothing in the
> base system does) is vulnerable.

Does -STABLE's /usr/bin/dig, host, etc, not use libbind, then ?

strings on the binary suggests otherwise.

\pir

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