Re: OT: Note on Denial-of-Service Vulnerability in ISC BIND 9

[anita@xxxxxxxxx (Anita Holmgren)]

At 4:57 PM -0500 6/7/02, Mike Jezierski wrote:
> Did or did not BIND 8 have it's own vulnerabilities including 
> elevated privilege and remote root access which is why the move was 
> made to 9 in the UNIX community?

There have been security alerts on BIND 8 and we have always 
addressed these very quickly with the appropriate patches.  I was 
only saying that this particular alert did not apply to Tenon.

-Anita

> > On Friday 07 June 2002 01:09 pm, you wrote:
> > >  WebTen uses BIND 8, as does even the latest iTools for Mac OS X.  So
> > >  this CERT advisory does not apply to Tenon.
> > >
> > >
> > >  -Anita
> >
> > Yeah but Red Hat Network had updates out on Wedensday for it.
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