Security hole

Paul Jacobs paul at netpacq.com
Wed Nov 3 19:58:41 UTC 1999


F.Y.I. -

I found a hole in bind 8.2.1 that allowed a hacker to gain root access to 
my red hat box running 8.2.1, and start using my system as a gateway!!

I reloaded my Red hat box and went back to the bind version that comes with 
5.2 and all is well agian..




Best regards,
Paul Jacobs /Senior Network Eng.
Commerce Service Provider (CSP)
Internet Presence Provider (IPP)
Streaming Video and MPEG
http://www.netpacq.com
mailto:paul at netpacq.com
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