My 9.5.1-P3 exit suddenly.
Gordon Ewasiuk
gewasiuk at above.net
Wed Aug 12 16:13:58 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 22:53 -0400, BBB Kee wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Gordon Ewasiuk <gewasiuk at above.net>
> wrote:
> I was getting the same results on a couple of Solaris 9 on x86
> servers.
> During a code review, a coworker found some fairly major
> changes in how
> BIND does things between 9.5.0-P2 and 9.5.1-P3.
>
> We had to backport just the security fix from 9.5.1-P3 to
> 9.5.0-P2 to
> address the sock->pending_recv error.
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>
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>
>
> O...how? I see lots of codes different between 9.5.0-P2 and 9.5.1-P3.
> Is it just copy the update.c from 9.5.1-P3 to 9.5.0-P2 and compile? I
> just make this changes and compile ok in 9.5.0-P2 and it seems it can
> prevent from the current DOS attack also.
>
> Eric
Hi Eric,
I am unsure exactly which piece was pulled from 9.5.1-P3 and backported.
I can just tell you that we did it. So far, things are stable.
Regards,
-Gordon
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