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Re: Continued DoS seen on BIND8.2.2p7


From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:36:13 -0500

On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 18:52:03 MST, Ryan Russell <ryan () SECURITYFOCUS COM>  said:
I don't believe that helps much.  The exploit is supposed to be possible
over UDP as well.

Note the exploit works over UDP, and *EVEN IF* you have 'allow-query'
restrictions in place that would block an actual query from the site.
The TSIG checking code is called *before* the allow-query ACL's are
checked.

                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech


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