Re: CERT Advisory CA-2002-18 OpenSSH Vulnerabilities in Challenge Response

From: Peter Radcliffe (pir@pir.net)
Date: 07/03/02


Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 22:21:46 -0400
From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org

Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> probably said:
> They don't use the parts of libbind that contain the bug. They use
> low-level functions that return raw DNS records rather than just host
> names or IP addresses.

and since libbind.a is isn't installed as part of the base OS, just by
the port, most people should be ok.

Thanks,
P.

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