From owner-freebsd-security Thu Mar 29 9:33:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from rapier.smartspace.co.za (rapier.smartspace.co.za [66.8.25.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B43E37B718 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:33:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@rapier.smartspace.co.za) Received: (qmail 87890 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Mar 2001 17:32:39 -0000 Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:32:39 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: James Greenfield Cc: Chris Faulhaber , Seorge , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Something's happening with named Message-ID: <20010329193238.A86421@rapier.smartspace.co.za> References: <4630.010329@rostokgroup.com> <20010329081208.A80429@peitho.fxp.org> <015e01c0b871$33158f00$4501a8c0@boubou> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <015e01c0b871$33158f00$4501a8c0@boubou>; from james@pagearts.co.za on Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 06:56:26PM +0200 Organization: Building Intelligence X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu 2001-03-29 (18:56), James Greenfield wrote: > I saw the same thing a while back (with the difference being that named > exited due to a different signal) > > messages.0:Mar 11 02:04:36 /kernel: pid 44813 (named), uid > 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) > > FreeBSD Version info: > FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Nov 20 > 13:02:55 GMT 2000 jkh@bento.FreeBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC > i386 > > named version info: > named 8.2.3-T6B Mon Nov 20 11:27:49 GMT 2000 > jkh@bento.FreeBSD.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/named > > I did some looking to see if a newer 8.2.3 release was out, but I couldn't > find a clear explanation of the meaning behind T6B. I see T9B is out (7 and > 8 apparently being released as betas only?), but I've been unsure of the > potential impact of an upgrade, and since this hasn't recurred I've left it > and decided to keep an eye on things until it happens again. > > If someone could briefly explain the versioning used by bind, I'd > appreciated it. Also, is it worth upgrading to T9B (or whatever the latest > release is)? 8.2.3 > 8.2.3-T6B. Ie, 8.2.3-T6B is before 8.2.3. It has the security problem. You can install the bind8 port over your current bind installation. I think it's as simple as "cd /usr/ports/net/bin8 && make install PREFIX=/usr", but you might have better luck looking at the archives. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message