Re: 2 Issues

[John Dalbec <jpdalbec ysu edu>]

Wil Cooley <wcooley nakedape cc> wrote:
> 1/ The recently released libxml2-python 2.4.19-5.legacy is missing the
> Python 2.2 modules:
>
> /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2.py
> /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2mod.so

2.4.19-6.legacy is in updates-testing now and has the missing modules.

> 2/ nscd from glibc-2.2.5-44 is vulnerable to DNS cache poisoning.  I
> don't know how it is when BIND doesn't seem to be affected, but several
> times now I've found 'localhost' mapping to an address block assigned to
> APNIC.  I did a search and a few other people have seen this too. 
> (There was no specific break-in because my firewall kept things sane.)
> You can use 'getent' to check ('host' only does DNS; 'getent' does
> NSS-lookups): 'getent hosts localhost'.  Workaround: Disable cache for
> hosts in /etc/nscd.conf or disable nscd (not a good solution if you're
> using NIS/LDAP/SQL/etc).

I think that if this were easy to fix Red Hat would have done so when people 
first complained about it.  Personally I've disabled hosts caching on my systems.

John