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Date:      Mon, 20 Aug 2001 04:27:14 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.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:  <20010820042714.A85470@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <008801c12958$f62671a0$b50d030a@patrick>; from patrick@mip.co.za on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:17:24AM %2B0200
References:  <20010820100304.A26382@student.uu.se> <008801c12958$f62671a0$b50d030a@patrick>

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On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:17:24AM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote:

> I see that the vulnerability should be fixed in 4.3-RELEASE (which CDs I
> just recently received).  I'll schedule a re-install with the 4.3 CDs ASA=
P.
> (I guess it's time I set my mind to implementing CVSup ?!?)

4.3 and earlier have a serious vulnerability in telnetd.  If you're
using that, see the advisory for details on how to fix it.

>=20
> Thanks once again for your quick and helpful responses!
>=20
> PS: I see a suggestion in the advisory that 'named' can be run unprivileg=
ed,
> and chrooted, etc.  Would you consider this to be a good practice for
> security reasons, regardless of known vulnerabilities?

Yes.

> (and a little later...)
>=20
> PPS: OK - the 'pkg_add -r bind' is done.  Now pkg_info says I have version
> 9.1.3!  I see the new 'named' is in /usr/local/sbin/, and after a reboot
> 'named -v' still reports v8.2.3.  Any suggestions on the best way to hook=
 it
> into /usr/sbin/?  I could copy, move, hard/sym link?  The original
> /usr/sbin/named (v8) is still in-situ.  I'm guessing :
> % mv /usr/sbin/named /usr/sbin/named.8       # keep v823 for posterity
> % ln /usr/local/sbin/named /usr/sbin/named   # link v913 into place

You didn't read the advisory properly.

Kris

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