[plug] Mandrake & Printing

[Matt Kemner]

Christian wrote:

> > (Question for some home users, new to Linux: are you
> > running a recent version of BIND with a remote root exploit?  You
might
> > be without having any idea that your you-beaut, user-friendly
> > distribution helpfully installed the DNS server software for you...)

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Bret Busby wrote:
 
> From a Linux user who probably has the level of knowledge mentioned,
> "Eh, wot?" 

1. Are you running bind?
2. What version are you running?

   (answers to both questions can be found with, iirc, "rpm -qv bind")

3. If you are running bind 8.2.something and the version is less than
   8.2.2 you may be vulnerable to the first bug described in
   http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-99-14-bind.html ("nxt bug")
   As a result somebody may already have root access to your machine.
   Go read the security information pages your linux vendor provides.
   (Debian's tells us it is not vulnerable to this bug)

 - Matt