Notified:  October 29, 2002 Updated: December 05, 2002

Status

Unknown

Vendor Statement

No statement is currently available from the vendor regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- SGI Security Advisory Title : BIND Name Server DNS Spoofing Vulnerability Number : 20021203-01-A Date : December 5, 2002 Reference: CERT Vulnerability Note VU#457875 Reference: SGI BUG 874059 - --- Issue Specifics --- SGI acknowledges the BIND name server vulnerability reported by Vagner Sacramento in CERT VU# 457875 (http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/457875 and http://www.rnp.br/cais/alertas/2002/cais-ALR-19112002a.html) and is currently investigating. No further information is available at this time. For the protection of all our customers, SGI does not disclose, discuss or confirm vulnerabilities until a full investigation has occurred and any necessary patch(es) or release streams are available for all vulnerable and supported Linux and IRIX operating systems. 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