-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE Security Announcement Package: bind8 < 8.2.2p2 + bind4 < 4.9.7-REL Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 01:56:04 GMT Affected SuSE versions: all Vulnerability Type: remote root compromise, denial of service SuSE default package: yes (not activated by default) Other affected systems: all unix systems using bind8 ______________________________________________________________________________ A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above. Please update as soon as possible or disable the service if you are using this software on your SuSE Linux installation(s). Other Linux distributions or operating systems might be affected as well, please contact your vendor for information about this issue. Please note, that that we provide this information on "as-is" basis only. There is no warranty whatsoever and no liability for any direct, indirect or incidental damage arising from this information or the installation of the update package. _____________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem Description Several vulnerabilities were found within bind4 and bind8. 2. Impact All bind4 and bind8 versions can be crashed in certain circumstances. bind8 8.2 until 8.2.1 can be compromised remotely through a buffer overflow. 3. Solution Updated the package from our FTP server. ______________________________________________________________________________ Please verify these md5 checksums of the updates before installing: (For SuSE 6.0, please use the 6.1 updates) 76afbb91c001880687e47f4dc0404807 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/n1/bind8-8.2.2-8.alpha.rpm a5f453329a023221476143956cf11b2d ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/n1/bindutil-8.2.2-8.alpha.rpm f510a224c9f45014853c128bb0f0d0da ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/5.3/n1/bind-4.9.7-101.i386.rpm 1e6234a05cbe7dd3c4e207743d3b4f6f ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/5.3/n1/bind8-8.2.2-8.i386.rpm 036fbc51c9902f7fe5cba1db5ef171e0 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/5.3/n1/bindutil-8.2.2-8.i386.rpm bca65a23d1e6ffe284956549e8eda731 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/n1/bind-4.9.7-101.i386.rpm d0bb5a9d2e4a0bb918856681828d677a ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/n1/bind8-8.2.2-8.i386.rpm 23a77b3103ce7cae0003d632a228ce87 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/n1/bindutil-8.2.2-8.i386.rpm 3a69c1344e970d1edb580420614d052f ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/n1/bind-4.9.7-101.i386.rpm e621dff7568fc5a6933e19df40283d0a ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/n1/bind8-8.2.2-8.i386.rpm e3c23546e73f3cffeea662c9de953d99 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/n1/bindutil-8.2.2-8.i386.rpm ______________________________________________________________________________ You can find updates on our ftp-Server: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update for Intel processors ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update for Alpha processors or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors: http://www.suse.de/ftp.html http://www.suse.com/ftp_new.html Our webpage for patches: http://www.suse.de/patches/index.html Our webpage for security announcements: http://www.suse.de/security If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact security@suse.de ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE has got two free security mailing list services to which any interested party may subscribe: use-security@suse.com - moderated and for general/linux/SuSE security discussions. 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