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Re: BIND 8.2.2-P5 Possible DOS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark.Andrews@NOMINUM.COM)
Sun Nov 12 13:59:40 2000

Message-ID:  <200011102233.eAAMXSq45378@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Date:         Sat, 11 Nov 2000 09:33:28 +1100
Reply-To: Mark.Andrews@NOMINUM.COM
From: Mark.Andrews@NOMINUM.COM
X-To:         "Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To:  Your message of "Thu, 09 Nov 2000 16:23:08 CDT." 
              <20001109212308.AF9214@proven.weird.com>

	BIND 8.2.2-P7 is now released and addresses this issue.

	http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html
	has also been updated to reflect this.

	Mark


> [ On Wednesday, November 8, 2000 at 17:29:15 (-0500), Akatosh wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: BIND 8.2.2-P5 Possible DOS
> >
> > attatched is my half-assed patch
>
> I think this is all that's really necessary.  It's working so far for me
> anyway....
>
> Index: src/bin/named/ns_xfr.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/misc/bind8/src/bin/named/ns_xfr.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.1.1.3
> diff -c -r1.1.1.3 ns_xfr.c
> *** src/bin/named/ns_xfr.c	1999/11/11 06:06:09	1.1.1.3
> --- src/bin/named/ns_xfr.c	2000/11/09 20:49:45
> ***************
> *** 97,103 ****
>   			   "unsupported XFR (type %s) of \"%s\" (%s) to %s",
>   			p_type(type), zones[zone].z_origin, p_class(class),
>   			sin_ntoa(qsp->s_from));
> ! 		goto abort;
>   	}
>
>   #ifdef SO_SNDBUF
> --- 97,104 ----
>   			   "unsupported XFR (type %s) of \"%s\" (%s) to %s",
>   			p_type(type), zones[zone].z_origin, p_class(class),
>   			sin_ntoa(qsp->s_from));
> ! 		(void) shutdown(qsp->s_rfd, 2);
> ! 		return;
>   	}
>
>   #ifdef SO_SNDBUF
>
> --
> 							Greg A. Woods
>
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