From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jul 17 14:41:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from pa169.kurdwanowa.sdi.tpnet.pl (pa169.kurdwanowa.sdi.tpnet.pl [213.77.148.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8A2137B403 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:41:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kzaraska@student.uci.agh.edu.pl) Received: by pa169.kurdwanowa.sdi.tpnet.pl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0A6871C4D; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 23:39:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pa169.kurdwanowa.sdi.tpnet.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B77B2545D; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 23:39:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 23:39:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Krzysztof Zaraska To: Ralph Huntington Cc: Simon Bozic , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named crushes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Ralph Huntington wrote: > You're named is likely being crashed from the outside. There is a > vulnerability in that version (and all earlier versions). You must upgrade > either to 8.2.3-REL or 9.1 Personally I would also recommend to do some kind of integrity checking on the machine. Since these crashes may be exploit attempts some could be successfull and in this case machine could have been backdoored. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message