Dax Kelson wrote:
> Gerhard Mack said once upon a time (Fri, 23 Mar 2001):
>
> > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Bob Lorenzini wrote:
> >
> > > I'm annoyed when persons post virus alerts to unrelated lists but this
> > > is a serious threat. If your offended flame away.
> >
> > This should be a wake up call... distributions need to stop using product
> > with consistently bad security records.
>
> This TSIG bug in BIND 8 that is being exploited was added to BIND 8 by the
> same team who wrote BIND 9.
>
> In fact the last two major remote root compromises (TSIG and NXT) for BIND
> 8 was in code added to BIND 8 by the BIND 9 developers.
You could say new code in general causes security holes... don't fix it
and you won't break it. There is the security principle of least privilege
though...
RH7 (and earlier I think) run bind drops root and runs as user named after
opening
a listening socket, so I don't think a bind
compromise could retrieve the /etc/shadow file and modify system binaries...
and RH7.1(beta) will use capabilities to furthur restrict privileges given to
bind(v9).
(not root ever)
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