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Re: Possible DOS in Bind 8.2.2-P5


From: Peter Pentchev <roam () ORBITEL BG>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:31:19 +0200

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:25:50AM -0300, Jonatan Sarba wrote:
milg:~# named-xfer -z zone.com.ar -d 9 -f pics -Z dns.zone.com.ar

named-xfer[3916]: send ZXFR query 0 to 200.0.1.101
named-xfer[3916]: premature EOF, fetching "zone.com.ar"

and the logs in dns server was:

Nov 13 13:55:36 dns named[19877]: zone transfer (ZXFR) of "zone.com.ar" (IN)
to [200.0.1.101].2916
Nov 13 13:55:36 dns named[30890]: execlp: No such file or directory
Nov 13 13:55:36 dns named[19877]: zxfr gzip pid 30890

i've chrooted the named daemon running on redhat-6.0. I think that the user
who runs the daemon, doesn't have permissions to execute the 'execlp'
function. Is it possible?

Possible, but quite improbable; it's much more likely that the execlp
system call is complaining that the file bind's trying to exec does
not exist.  That is, you've missed copying some file and/or library
to the chroot tree.

Unfortunately, I do not have BIND sources handy right now, so I cannot
make a guess at which file might be the problem.

G'luck,
Peter

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