From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 23: 9:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harumscarum.mr.itd.umich.edu (harumscarum.mr.itd.umich.edu [141.211.125.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2F5A37B67D for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:08:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com (c1129767-a.elnsng1.mi.home.com [24.183.248.20]) by harumscarum.mr.itd.umich.edu (8.9.3/3.3s) with SMTP id CAA11409; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 02:08:49 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen To: Donald Burr , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD susceptible to BIND vulnerability? Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 02:12:59 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01013102125901.78918@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message