Re: Bind9 (9.7.4)

[Pascal Hambourg]

Hello,

Chris Brennan a écrit :
> 
> I was discussing a bind issue that I am experiencing w/ an acquaintance on
> IRC this afternoon and he informed me that bind was updated to cover a 
> latent bug in the DNS message processing code that could allow certain 
> UPDATE requests to crash named.
> 
> I'm currently running Bind 9.7.3, which as far as I can tell is the latest
> available on the stable squeeze repos.

AFAICS, this vulnerability has been fixed in Debian Squeeze, see



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Re: Bind9 (9.7.4)

[Chris Brennan]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Pascal Hambourg  wrote:

Hello,
>
> Chris Brennan a écrit :
> >
> > I was discussing a bind issue that I am experiencing w/ an acquaintance
> on
> > IRC this afternoon and he informed me that bind was updated to cover a
> > latent bug in the DNS message processing code that could allow certain
> > UPDATE requests to crash named.
> >
> > I'm currently running Bind 9.7.3, which as far as I can tell is the
> latest
> > available on the stable squeeze repos.
>
> AFAICS, this vulnerability has been fixed in Debian Squeeze, see
> 
>

OK, So my copy of bind is correctly up to date. That doesn't explain then
why
I am getting random deaths of bind, multiple times a day. It doesn't log
anything, which is the odd part, and it fails to restart without human
intervention
(cron isn't catching it for some reason, but that's not the bigger problem.)

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