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Red Hat: RHSA-2000:109-05 Critical: Netscape HTML Parsing Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 28, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A new update has been launched for Mozilla targeting a significant security flaw in CSS interpretation found on Debian systems.
New Netscape packages are available that fix a buffer overflowin parsing HTML.

Solution

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filename]

where filename is the name of the RPM.

5. Bug IDs fixed ( for more info):

20415 - Netscape segfault - cured in 4.76 20462 - Netscape 4.75 buffer overflow


6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 6.0:

i386:



sources:

Red Hat Linux 6.1:

i386:



sources:

Red Hat Linux 6.2:

alpha:



i386:



sources:


Red Hat Linux 7.0:

alpha:



i386:



sources:


7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name 70e2a3b0e97bd39cf5041ed4abacda98 6.0/SRPMS/netscape-4.76-0.6.2.src.rpm b4a875d94e0947b16b9a973d23f6222b 6.0/i386/netscape-common-4.76-0.6.2.i386.rpm fcde6218d7de0e9e009892c57e7f88ca 6.0/i386/netscape-communicator-4.76-0.6.2.i386.rpm 670b08cbad1097f4ca923071c202b5dd 6.0/i386/netscape-navigator-4.76-0.6.2.i386.rpm 70e2a3b0e97bd39cf5041ed4abacda98 6.1/SRPMS/netscape-4.76-0.6.2.src.rpm b4a875d94e0947b16b9a973d23f6222b 6.1/i386/netscape-common-4.76-0.6.2.i386.rpm fcde6218d7de0e9e009892c57e7f88ca 6.1/i386/netscape-communicator-4.76-0.6.2.i386.rpm 670b08cbad1097f4ca923071c202b5dd 6.1/i386/netscape-navigator-4.76-0.6.2.i386.rpm 70e2a3b0e97bd39cf5041ed4abacda98 6.2/SRPMS/netscape-4.76-0.6.2.src.rpm 924dec1cde5eba83655c1aa1f93bad39 6.2/SRPMS/netscape-alpha-4.76-0.6.2.src.rpm acbb0bcbca33eb41e396a9c7013e2d3d 6.2/alpha/netscape-common-4.76-0.6.2.alpha.rpm 5709be8e1656a2eff9fafe719f5528d2 6.2/alpha/netscape-communicator-4.76-0.6.2.alpha.rpm 9aa6f256592c3f96ee60c57b879618b2 6.2/alpha/netscape-navigator-4.76-0.6.2.alpha.rpm b4a875d94e0947b16b9a973d23f6222b 6.2/i386/netscape-common-4.76-0.6.2.i386.rpm fcde6218d7de0e9e009892c57e7f88ca 6.2/i386/netscape-communicator-4.76-0.6.2.i386.rpm 670b08cbad1097f4ca923071c202b5dd 6.2/i386/netscape-navigator-4.76-0.6.2.i386.rpm 81e1c3e9673ab1e2b498cf3fdaeabcc5 7.0/SRPMS/netscape-4.76-1.src.rpm 7faa76eb6405f45aeb6c41380b833967 7.0/SRPMS/netscape-alpha-4.76-1.src.rpm 199832fec88401961e33203adf3a27c2 7.0/alpha/netscape-common-4.76-1.alpha.rpm 29848ea9545c21d3bb0d8318265fd918 7.0/alpha/netscape-communicator-4.76-1.alpha.rpm 1f27bf46ccf8c7d0bfa7106240cc8174 7.0/alpha/netscape-navigator-4.76-1.alpha.rpm 3bb98e22f094236211955579c7ce49ad 7.0/i386/netscape-common-4.76-1.i386.rpm fc03263dbbbe7f8f1031200d9a8e2022 7.0/i386/netscape-communicator-4.76-1.i386.rpm 3a12fb2d8d0187c7d3684b2a7cf4a9fc 7.0/i386/netscape-navigator-4.76-1.i386.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key is available at:

You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig

If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg

Summary

References

Copyright(c) 2000 Red Hat, Inc. `

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:109-05
Issue date: 2000-11-17
Updated on: 2000-11-27
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: netscape HTML buffer overflow
Cross references: N/A

Topic

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Linux 6.0 - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Linux 6.1 - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Linux 6.2 - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Linux 7.0 - i386, alpha

Bugs Fixed

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