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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

                 ESB-2002.310 -- OpenBSD Security Advisory
                    buffer overflow in the DNS resolver
                               27 June 2002

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:                dns resolver
Vendor:                 OpenBSD
Operating System:       OpenBSD 2.8
                        OpenBSD 2.9
                        OpenBSD 3.0
                        OpenBSD 3.1
Impact:                 Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands
Access Required:        Remote

Ref:                    ESB-2002.309

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Description:
    A buffer overflow has been found in the BSD DNS resolver.

Impact:
    It may be possible for an attacker with control over a DNS zone
    to cause a buffer overflow in applications doing standard DNS
    calls (gethostbyname(), gethostbyaddr(), etc).

    It is not known at this time whether or not such an overflow
    could be used to escalate privileges.  We suggest users assume
    the worst and patch their systems.

Credit:
    The bug was found and fix a proposed by Joost Pol.
    The patches used were written by Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino.

The following patches are available:

OpenBSD 3.1:
    ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.1/common/007_resolver.patch

OpenBSD 3.0:
    ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/025_resolver.patch

OpenBSD 2.9:
    ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/027_resolver.patch

The OpenBSD 2.9 patch also applies cleanly to OpenBSD 2.8.

The OpenBSD 3.1, 3.0 and 2.9 patch branches (aka OpenBSD-stable)
also contain the patch.

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