IP spoofing or buffer overflow attacks

[Barry Margolin]

In article <802568CE.004D7C3A.00 at qedilc01.qedi.quintiles.com>,
 <philip.wolfe at quintiles.com> wrote:
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>Hi Everyone,
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>Could someone please point me in the direction of how to overcome/prevent IP
>spoofing and buffer overflow attacks on Port 53. I would like to cover both
>versions 4.9.4 ( This is marked for upgrade ) and 8.2.5.

The way to overcome them in 4.9.4 is to upgrade to 4.9.7 -- that version
was basically just a security bug-fix release, precisely for these types of
attacks.

I believe 8.2.2p5 has all the known buffer overflow problems fixed, so you
shouldn't need to do anything there.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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