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 -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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