bind exploit, patch expected?

[Stephen Clark]

Doug Barton wrote:

>Steven Hartland wrote:
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>>I assume the security team are already working on this but
>>cant hurt to ask:
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>Before you ask questions on a public list it's generally considered
>polite to do a little checking yourself, especially in an open source
>project. As Mike pointed out, the secteam had already addressed this
>issue on -security, and I had already followed up in detail regarding
>the upgrade plans.
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>In addition, at the time you posted the updates had all been done in
>the ports, HEAD (-current), and RELENG_[56] (5 and 6-stable).
>
>In any case, it's good that you're on top of your security
>announcements, and I'm glad to say that this time anyway we're one
>step ahead. :)
>
>Doug
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Interesting - I just checked the FreeBSD.org security page and don't see 
any indication of
a patch to fix the vulnerability for 6.1.

Steve

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