PROBLEM: (SSRT0546U, SSRT0542U) (Patch ID: OSF435-001) ******** A potential security vulnerability has been discovered, where under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file or privilege management. Digital has corrected this potential vulnerability. In addressing this issue, a warning message not previously seen may be placed in the daemon.log by named. An example of the message follows: Jan 7 14:03:25 hostname named[316]: owner name "xx_yy.zz.com" IN (secondary) is invalid - proceeding anyway This message has no impact on system operation and will only be seen once for any given node name on a BIND server at startup. It is informing the user that this node name contains non-standard characters. Standard characters are defined as A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and hyphen. Non-standard characters are characters that fall out of the standard set such as underscores. PROBLEM: (QAR 68986) (Patch ID: OSF435-405568) ******** This patch fixes a problem in which a BIND server may find that named will place a warning message in the daemon.log that was not previously seen. This message has no impact on system operation and will only be seen once for any given node on a BIND server at startup. In addressing security releated BIND issues, an area of BIND functionality was altered in a previous BIND patch. A message that informs the user that a node name contains non-standard characters, such as underscores, is placed in the daemon.log file. An example of the message is: Jan 7 14:03:25 host named[316]: owner name "xx_yy.zz.com" IN (secondary) is invalid - proceeding anyway Standard characters are defined as A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and hyphen. PROBLEM: (QAR 69028) (Patch ID: OSF435-405569) ******** This patch fixes a problem in which a BIND server writes files to the /etc/namedb directory instead of the /var/tmp directory. In addressing security related BIND issues, an area of BIND functionality was altered in a previous BIND patch. Files written to the /etc/namedb directory include named.run, named_dump.db, and named.stats.