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Red Hat Linux 7.0 RHSA-2000:087-02 Critical: Ping Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey October 18, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
This update resolves critical ping issues related to buffer overflow in Red Hat Linux to enhance system security.
This update fixes various issues in ping including a possible buffer overflow.

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):

18611 - Unfortunate regression in "ping" security 16677 - "ping -c 1 -s 65690 localhost" segfaults


6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 6.2:

alpha:

sparc:

i386:

sources:

Red Hat Linux 7.0:

i386:

sources:

7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name e4b1ca9fbebe4dfa6e37eba5a48d307f 6.2/SRPMS/iputils-20001010-1.6x.src.rpm 6904ba7f8502fb009002cd96645f0539 6.2/alpha/iputils-20001010-1.6x.alpha.rpm ce5de156e02e5e8e010a344e8c0cdc34 6.2/i386/iputils-20001010-1.6x.i386.rpm 11c046097bfb8c3fa62635aa531edfeb 6.2/sparc/iputils-20001010-1.6x.sparc.rpm 7bb083f0624eafd1a3f2038ff740789a 7.0/SRPMS/iputils-20001010-1.src.rpm 1973d87e9f0b685991ab4ffba1a7d257 7.0/i386/iputils-20001010-1.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

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Linux security issue buffer overflow critical network ping

References

N/A Copyright(c) 2000 Red Hat, Inc. `

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:087-02
Issue date: 2000-10-17
Updated on: 2000-10-18
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: ping buffer overflows
Cross references: N/A

Topic

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Linux security issue buffer overflow critical network ping

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Linux 6.2 - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Linux 7.0 - i386

Red Hat Linux 7.0J - i386

Bugs Fixed

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