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Date:      Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:35:54 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Patrick O'Reilly <patrick@mip.co.za>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Question List (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Name Daemon dies on signal 11 ?!?
Message-ID:  <20010820173554.B459@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <001e01c12947$6d03b1a0$b50d030a@patrick>; from patrick@mip.co.za on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:12:05AM %2B0200
References:  <001e01c12947$6d03b1a0$b50d030a@patrick>

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On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:12:05AM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote:
> I have a name server running the 'named' which is standard with FreeBSD.
> 
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD perimeter.???.com 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jul 27
> 23:20:57 SAST 2001     peri@perimeter.???.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/perimeter
> i386
> 
> On a few occasions the named process has died for no apparent reason (well,
> not apparent to me anyway - but perhaps one of you will know!).  The
> following line is the only information in /var/log/messages:
> -----------
> Aug 20 00:49:26 perimeter /kernel: pid 620 (named), uid 0: exited on signal
> 11 (core dumped)
> -----------
> 
> Any clues?  Is this possibly a security vulnerability that someone is
> teasing me with?  Or what?

Yups. Install the latest in /usr/ports/net/bind8, which is 8.2.4 iirc

The one coming with 4.2 has a vulnerability, see
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-02.html

Edwin

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