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Re: Bind 9 DoS vulnerability
From:
Jan Kundrát <[log in to unmask]>
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Jan Kundrát <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:05:29 +0200
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Michael Mansour wrote:
> Is this something real and to be concerned about?

Yes, it crashed our named instance running on a freshly updated SL5.2.
For reference, exploit is available from the Debian bugtracker [1]. Note
that the iptables snippet won't work on SL because it doesn't have the
u32 iptables module.

Cheers,
-jkt

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538975

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