Advisories
Mandriva Advisories
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| Problem Description |
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the BIND8 DNS server by ISS
(Internet Security Services), including a remotely exploitable buffer
overflow. The first vulnerability is how named handles SIG records;
this buffer overflow can be exploited to obtain access to the victim
host with the privilege of the user the named process is running as.
By default, Mandrake Linux is configured to run the named process as
the named user. To successfully exploit this vulnerability, the
attacker must control an existing DNS domain and must be allowed to
perform a recursive query.
A possible work-around is to restrict recursive requests, however
MandrakeSoft encourages all users to upgrade to the provided BIND9
packages. You can also completely disable recursion by adding
"recursion no;" to the options section of /etc/named.conf.
Several Denial of Service problems also exist in BIND8 that allow
attackers to terminate the named process. At least one of these
vulnerabilities seems to be exploitable even when the attacker is
not permitted to perform recursive queries, so the work-around noted
above is not effective against this DoS.
Both problems are not reported to effect BIND9. As Linux-Mandrake
7.2 and Single Network Firewall 7.2 are the only supported distributions
to still ship BIND8, we have elected to upgrade to both a patched
version of BIND8 and BIND9. The BIND8 packages contain the patch
ISC made available late on the 13th, contrary to their original
advisory which called for them to be made available next week. Despite
this, however, MandrakeSoft encourages everyone who is able to upgrade
to BIND9 rather than BIND8.
The MandrakeSoft security team wishes to apologize to MandrakeSoft
customers for not being able to provide timely fixes for this problem,
and regrets the inability of the ISC to work with the Internet community
at large to provide adequate protection to users of BIND.
| Updated Packages |
Mandrakelinux 7.2
f3ca1559f7d2fbe17a2ec6dab327bb7e 7.2/RPMS/bind-8.3.3-2.1mdk.i586.rpm 0ccd937ec59aa9775f79b05f62d4718c 7.2/RPMS/bind-9.2.1-2.3mdk.i586.rpm 783ab2327c7e7983a07a8043d3355bbb 7.2/RPMS/bind-devel-8.3.3-2.1mdk.i586.rpm bbf717f0f71098ab6c2293d9dbd1c1bd 7.2/RPMS/bind-devel-9.2.1-2.3mdk.i586.rpm 47a2418adcd190b22956407a667fbc9e 7.2/RPMS/bind-utils-8.3.3-2.1mdk.i586.rpm 56b9c086c299cdfd367ae87f14db711b 7.2/RPMS/bind-utils-9.2.1-2.3mdk.i586.rpm df34fbecce2e6c61695fcee11a525fea 7.2/RPMS/caching-nameserver-8.1-3.2mdk.noarch.rpm f9d914230ec37be01ad4d00abcde0280 7.2/SRPMS/bind-8.3.3-2.1mdk.src.rpm 8660bd628168c52478b0f766d0ab676c 7.2/SRPMS/bind-9.2.1-2.3mdk.src.rpm 904b9064763803d24afc79e7140146a4 7.2/SRPMS/caching-nameserver-8.1-3.2mdk.src.rpm
| References |
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-1219
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-1220
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-1221
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/852283
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/229595
http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html
http://bvlive01.iss.net/issEn/delivery/xforce/alertdetail.jsp?oid=21469
| Upgrade |
To upgrade automatically, use MandrivaUpdate.
| Verification |
Please verify the update prior to upgrading to ensure the integrity of the downloaded package. You can do this with the command :
rpm --checksig package.rpm
You can get the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team to verify the GPG signature of each RPM.
If you use MandrivaUpdate, the verification of md5 checksum and GPG signature is performed automatically for you.