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PostPosted: Fri Aug 16, 2002 7:24 pm    Post subject: [gentoo-announce] GLSA: bind and bind-tools Reply with quote

Seemant Kulleen wrote:
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GLSA: GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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PACKAGE : net-dns/bind and net-dns/bind-tools
VERSION : 9.2.1
SUMMARY : buffer overflow vulnerability
DATE : Mon Aug 12 18:52:32 UTC 2002
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OVERVIEW

A buffer overflow exists in bind and bind-tools versions 9.2.1 which may
allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, if s/he controls the DNS
responses.

DETAIL

The full advisory may be found here:

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/803539

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-dns/bind-9.2.1-r2 and/or net-dns/bind-9.2.1 and earlier update their
systems as follows.


emerge rsync
emerge bind (and/or emerge bind-tools)
emerge clean

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seemant@gentoo.org
drobbins@gentoo.org
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Seemant Kulleen
Developer and Project Co-ordinator,
Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/~seemant

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