Red Hat alert: Remote vulnerabilities in BIND 4 and 8
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Subject: | [ALERT] Remote vulnerabilities in BIND 4 and 8 | |
Date: | Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:56:04 +0000 (GMT) |
--------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 _______________________________________________ Redhat-watch-list mailing list To unsubscribe, visit: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-watch-list
Posted Nov 13, 2002 9:40 UTC (Wed)
by angdraug (subscriber, #7487)
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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.
Posted Nov 13, 2002 17:46 UTC (Wed)
by garloff (subscriber, #319)
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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.Another ISS screwup?
Fully agreed. ISS is handling these issues in a very poor manner.Another ISS screwup?
Even worse than Theo.