Fedora 21: FEDORA-2015-2584 Moderate: Echoping Buffer Overflow Fix
fedora
April 10, 2015
Updated to latest SVN, fixing various bugs.
Summary
Echoping is a small program to test (approximate) performances of a
remote host by sending TCP "echo" (or other protocol, such as HTTP)
packets.
Update Information:
Updated to latest SVN, fixing various bugs.
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Wed Feb 25 2015 Andreas Thienemann
References
[ 1 ] Bug #705174 - echoping: boundary error in SSL-related functions can lead to buffer overflow [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705174
[ 2 ] Bug #1007031 - echoping segfaults all the time
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1007031
[ 3 ] Bug #460557 - echoping : Package and software are in a desolate state
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460557
[ 4 ] Bug #1032547 - echoping doesn't seem to work (cannot open shared object file)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1032547
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update echoping' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .
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Name: echoping
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 6.1
Release: 0.beta.r434svn.1.fc21
URL: Summary : TCP performance test to measure response time of network hosts
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