bind8, libpcap, tcpdump

Dan Osterrath <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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Although these packages are not listed in the BLFS book I wanna give a hint for everyone using these packages:

In bind 4 and bind 8 there are several vulnerabilities. 
http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html
http://bvlive01.iss.net/issEn/delivery/xforce/alertdetail.jsp?oid=21469
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-31.html

And in libpcap and tcpdump might be a trojan horse when downloaded from http://tcpdump.org
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/pab-13.11.02-002/
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-30.html

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%> ln -s /dev/null /dev/brain
%> ln -s /dev/urandom /dev/world
%> dd if=/dev/world of=/dev/brain
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