bindvrs Vulnerability

Audrey Beach abeach at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 17:41:49 UTC 2010


Nagaraj
One way to is to make a change in the named.conf. see below.  This will
output what you supply instead of the version number.


change in named.conf

options {

          version "Confidential";
};


Hope this is what you were looking for.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Kevin Darcy <kcd at chrysler.com> wrote:

> Hiding your version accomplishes little.
>
> a) attackers can using "fingerprinting" technology to determine your BIND
> version even if you obscure it
> b) attackers can just brute force all of the known attacks in the hopes
> that you're vulnerable to at least one of them
>
> The real solution is to upgrade to a version that's not vulnerable.
>
>
>                                  - Kevin
> Balanagaraju Munukutla wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> How to Disable the BIND version query feature in BIND 9.2.1.
>>
>> This is a bindvrs Vulnerability.
>>
>> Thanks & Regards
>> Nagaraj
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