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GLSA: GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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PACKAGE         : net-dns/bind and net-dns/bind-tools
VERSION		: 9.2.1
SUMMARY         : buffer overflow vulnerability
DATE            : Mon Aug 12 18:52:32 UTC 2002
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OVERVIEW

A buffer overflow exists in bind and bind-tools versions 9.2.1  which may
allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, if s/he controls the DNS
responses.

DETAIL

The full advisory may be found here:

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/803539

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-dns/bind-9.2.1-r2 and/or net-dns/bind-9.2.1 and earlier update their
systems as follows.


emerge rsync
emerge bind  (and/or emerge bind-tools)
emerge clean

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kevin@aptbasilicata.it
seemant@gentoo.org
drobbins@gentoo.org
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-- 
Seemant Kulleen
Developer and Project Co-ordinator,
Gentoo Linux					http://www.gentoo.org/~seemant

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