A Different BIND 9.5.0 Crash Solaris 9

bsfinkel at anl.gov bsfinkel at anl.gov
Thu Jul 10 15:56:12 UTC 2008


At Wed,  9 Jul 2008 09:18:42 -0500 (CDT), bsfinkel at anl.gov wrote:

>> I have looked at the other BIND 9.5.0 crash dump, and the cause
>> appears to be different than the one I posted yesterday.  This one
>> happened, as did the other one, after renaming the current query log
>> and running "reconfig":
>> 
>>      mv /var/log/named.query.log ...
>>      returncode=$?
>>      /export/home/named/rndc reconfig

And JINMEI Tatuya replied:

>Can you try 9.5.0-P1 or 9.5.1b1 to see it still causes the
>same/similar crash?  The code around this crash was heavily modified
>in these versions since 9.5.0, so the problem may be (unintentionally)
>solved with them.  Also, since 9.5.0 is considered "vulnerable" to the
>recent security alert, we cannot prioritize chasing this bug at the
>moment.

I have installed 9.5.0-P1 on all five of my servers, and I will wait
for the next core file.
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