From owner-freebsd-security Sat Jun 29 21:59:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEEE437B401 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 21:59:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horsey.gshapiro.net (horsey.gshapiro.net [209.220.147.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B5B643E1A for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 21:59:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gshapiro@gshapiro.net) Received: from horsey.gshapiro.net (gshapiro@localhost [IPv6:::1]) by horsey.gshapiro.net (8.12.5.Beta0/8.12.5.Beta0) with ESMTP id g5U4xb36029397 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sat, 29 Jun 2002 21:59:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gshapiro@localhost) by horsey.gshapiro.net (8.12.5.Beta0/8.12.5.Beta0/Submit) id g5U4xbMl029394; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 21:59:37 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15646.36921.451431.831549@horsey.gshapiro.net> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 21:59:37 -0700 From: Gregory Neil Shapiro To: Brett Glass Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libc flaw: BIND 9 closes most holes but also opens one In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020629154840.02cef6a0@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020629123101.02ed2df0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20020629153253.02e88ef0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20020629154840.02cef6a0@localhost> X-Mailer: VM 7.03 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> Only if you're using something that links against it. IMO you're better >> off just not having [libbind] around. brett> Some things link with it. I believe that Sendmail is among them. No, sendmail is quite happy with the libc resolver. Sure you can make it link with libbind (or any other library you feel like throwing in there :) if you wish, but it isn't necessary. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message