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Date:      Sat, 29 Jun 2002 20:18:04 -0500
From:      Pete Ehlke <pde@rfc822.net>
To:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: libc flaw: BIND 9 closes most holes but also opens one
Message-ID:  <20020630011804.GA24509@rfc822.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020629191122.02c948b0@localhost>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20020629180311.02b5b2d0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20020629191122.02c948b0@localhost>

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On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 07:12:22PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 06:29 PM 6/29/2002, Mark.Andrews@isc.org wrote:
> 
> >        No one is denying that the version in 9.2.1 is vulerable.
> >
> >        You stated that 8.2.6 was vulnerable when it is not.
> 
> It's so far behind the latest version of BIND 8, which is 8.3.3,
> that I doubt that it would be possible to fix it without a
> time machine.
> 
You are aware, Brett, that you are lecturing one of the BIND authors on
the subtleties of the BIND source? 

Once and for all: there is a fixed 8.3.x. There is a fixed 8.2.x. There
is even a fixed v4.

This horse is dead. Please stop flogging it, for everyone's sake.

-P.

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