Security Incidents: Re: Lion Worm/crew.tgz/suspect bind versions

[Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:10:21 +0300, Lucian Hudin said:
> Bind 8.1.2 isn't vulnerable, and still widely used. Sometimes people
> downgrade from 8.2.x to 8.1.2.
It isn't vulnerable to *this* bug.

Note that the TSIG bug and the recent off-by-one error were both listed
as [bug] rather than [security] in the BIND src/CHANGES file.

You might want to look at http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1999-14.html
and see if you can convince yourself that BIND 8.1.2 is immune to
all 6 attacks listed.

You may also want to look at
ftp://ftp.auscert.org.au/pub/auscert/advisory/AL-1999.004.dns_dos
which notes that BIND 8.2.1 requires a patch to fix another issue...

Other than all *those* problems, yes, I guess 8.1.2 *is* secure. ;)

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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech

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