exploit?

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Nov 28 00:32:19 UTC 2000


digitalconscious.com wrote:

> im running RH 6.2 with BIND 8.2.2-P5 and it seems I've been hacked, was
> there any exploit for this version of BIND??...If so, ..what was it because
> I'm assuming he might of got in my box thought that daemon,...I could be
> wrong....but someone mentioned it probably happened through BIND

I believe BIND 8.2.2-p5 was only vulnerable to Denial-of-Service attacks.

> also to upgrade to BIND 8.2.2-7, how do I do this,...can I just download the
> tarball and install it,..overwritting the old version...will this work ok?

What tarball are you talking about? A binary tarball? I suppose that would
work, although for RH I would have expected binaries to come in a RPM. Or are
you talking about the source tarball? You'd need to compile that.


- Kevin




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