bind update and kernel update?

Tue Dec 2 01:30:51 UTC 2003

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 18:18, fedora wrote:
> last week there was a BIND vulnerability fix. I figured the fixes for RH 

There was?  For BIND 9?  Do you have a reference?

Last BIND update I see was a maintenance release of 9.2.3 in October,
and I can't seem to find anything in CERT's database.

> Also, since the kernel security issue was fixed in the 2.4.23 kernel in 
> september was there a reason for it not being already backported already?

I would like to see a kernel with the do_brk() patch, but 2.4.23 only
came out a few days ago, not in September.

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