On 2/17/16, 11:34 AM, "Reindl Harald" <bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org on behalf of h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote:
>Am 17.02.2016 um 17:22 schrieb Dominique Jullier: >> Are they any thoughts around, how to handle yesterday's glibc >> vulnerability[1][2] from the side bind? >> >> Since it is a rather painful task in order to update all hosts to a new >> version of glibc, we were thinking about other possible workarounds > >Fedora, RHEL and Debian as well as likely all other relevant >distributions are providing a patched glibc - dunno what is "rather >painful" to apply a ordinary update like kernel security updates and >restart all network relevant processes or reboot While I agree that the "major distributions" (and even the minor ones) are getting patches out, I'd like to point out something that Alan Cox posted over on G+: "You can upgrade all your servers but if that little cheapo plastic box on your network somewhere has a vulnerable post 2008 glibc and ever does DNS lookups chances are it's the equivalent of a trapdoor into your network." https://plus.google.com/+AlanClegg/posts/R1UkJjHMMB6 There does need to be something a bit deeper than "patch your servers".. AlanC > _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
