bind (wasRe: [plug] Mandrake & Printing)

[Bret Busby]

Matt Kemner wrote:
> 
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> 1. Are you running bind?
> 2. What version are you running?
> 
>    (answers to both questions can be found with, iirc, "rpm -qv bind")

Answers:
On my computer (RH 5.2) bind-8.1.2-5
On firewall/gateway (RH 6.0) bind-8.2-6

> 
> 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

Oh, S**T!