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Date:      03 Jul 2002 03:43:29 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CERT Advisory CA-2002-18 OpenSSH Vulnerabilities in Challenge Response
Message-ID:  <xzp7kkd8u2m.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20020703012422.GC9314@pir.net>
References:  <NEBBIGLHNDFEJMMIEGOOGEHGFCAA.peter@skyrunner.net> <xzpk7od8vwt.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200207030109.g6319Ufb008965@apollo.backplane.com> <xzpbs9p8v8b.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020703012422.GC9314@pir.net>

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Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> writes:
> 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 ?

They don't use the parts of libbind that contain the bug.  They use
low-level functions that return raw DNS records rather than just host
names or IP addresses.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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