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Red Hat alert: Remote vulnerabilities in BIND 4 and 8

From:  bugzilla@redhat.com
To:  redhat-watch-list@redhat.com
Subject:  [ALERT] Remote vulnerabilities in BIND 4 and 8
Date:  Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:56:04 +0000 (GMT)

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                   Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat Security Alert

Synopsis:          Remote vulnerabilities in BIND 4 and 8
Issue date:        2002-11-12
CVE Names:         CAN-2002-1219 CAN-2002-1220 CAN-2002-1221
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1. Problem description:

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the DNS
(Domain Name System) protocols.  Three remotely exploitable
vulnerabilities were disclosed by ISC on 12 November 2002 that affect
various versions of BIND 4 and 8.

Versions of Red Hat Linux since 7.1, and Red Hat Linux Advanced Server
shipped with BIND 9 are are therefore not vulnerable to these issues.

Older releases (6.2, 7.0) of Red Hat Linux shipped with versions of BIND
which are vulnerable to these issues, however a Red Hat security errata in
July 2002 upgraded all our supported distributions to BIND 9.2.1 which is
not vulnerable to these issues.

2. Solution:

All users who have BIND installed should ensure that they are already
running version 9 of BIND and preferably upgrade to the lastest errata
packages listed below.  To check if BIND is installed and find the version
number use the command "rpm -qi bind".

For Red Hat Linux see:
	http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-133.html

For Red Hat Linux Advanced Server see:
	http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-119.html

3. References:

http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-1219
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-1220
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-1221

4. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <security@redhat.com>.  More contact
details at http://www.redhat.com/solutions/security/news/contact.html




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Another ISS screwup?

Posted Nov 13, 2002 9:40 UTC (Wed) by angdraug (subscriber, #7487) [Link] (1 responses)

It looks like yet another vulnerability disclosure by ISS X-Force with no prior CERT coordination. I think this irresponsible behaviour should be punished with wide condemnation from free software media: it must be made well known that a company with such questionable reputation can not be trusted in the field of computer security.

Disclaimer: ISS (Internet Security Systems) is completely separate from ISC (Internet Software Consortium). I don't want anyone to think that I hold anything against ISC: it is ISS I am disappointed with.

Disclaimer2: I would be most glad to be proven wrong, but I have had a lot of headache during the last year from the ISS disclosures alone, and I know many people who share this pain.

Another ISS screwup?

Posted Nov 13, 2002 17:46 UTC (Wed) by garloff (subscriber, #319) [Link]

Fully agreed. ISS is handling these issues in a very poor manner.
Even worse than Theo.


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