Multiple instances of BIND at startup

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Thu May 22 22:21:22 UTC 2008


On May 22, 2008, at 1:39 PM, Jonathan Chen wrote:
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> If this were true, the "view" feature would be broken. I've just tried
> this with a client-based ACL, and there doesn't appear to any
> cache-leaking across views. Any counter-examples would be welcome.

Well, BIND is up to 28 published security advisories:

   http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/bind-security.php#matrix

...which not only have included cache poisoning (2003-0914), but many  
of them allowed for arbitrary code execution, often as root.

-- 
-Chuck



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