Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:03:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: SGI Security Coordinator <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]Subject: IRIX DNS resolver vulnerability
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
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SGI Security Advisory
Title: DNS resolver vulnerability
Number: 20020701-01-I
Date: July 11, 2002
Reference: CERT=AE Advisory CA-2002-19
Reference: CAN-2002-0651
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- --- Issue Specifics ---
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It's been reported that the dns resolver libraries in several UNIX varian=
ts
are vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack.
See http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-19.html for additional details=
=2E
SGI has investigated the issue and has determined that IRIX 6.5 is not
vulnerable to this problem.
No corrective action is required on IRIX 6.5 systems.
This vulnerability has been assigned the following CVE:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCAN-2002-0651
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for their assistance in this matter.
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