BIND 8.2.2p7 crashes randomly on Linux

James Raftery james-bind-users at now.ie
Wed Feb 28 16:06:13 UTC 2001


On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 03:07:56PM +0100, Niccolo Rigacci wrote:
> I have Bind 8.2.2p7 installed on a Debian Gnu/Linux 2.2. The daemon
> crashes randomly after 2-3 days. No relevant info are logged. The core
> dumps I got say signal 6 (Aborted) one time and signal 11 (Segmentation
> fault) the other.
> I read that 8.2.2 is vulnerable to some remote exploit, are there more
> info on this, beside those at
> http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html?

IIRC, Debian issued an advisory and updated packages. Also, the BUGTRAQ
archives at http://www.securityfocus.com/ shuold have some info.
You should upgrade immiedately.

Regards,
james
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