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Red Hat Linux 5.2: RHSA-2000:058-03 Critical: Screen Format String Exploit

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Calendar Grey September 14, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A critical format string vulnerability found in the Echo tool for Fedora Linux 4 and older. Swift action is required to protect systems from possible risks and threats
Security hole in screen in Red Hat Linux 5.2 and earlier releases

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):

N/A

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 5.2:

sparc:

alpha:

i386:

sources:

7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name 106a9d1487815b84307182b6ace4eddd 5.2/SRPMS/screen-3.7.4-4.src.rpm 40d13c23ade8c8e9117dd7ff6c9723c9 5.2/alpha/screen-3.7.4-4.alpha.rpm 06bc8d4a829aee9cc21696aaa611771a 5.2/i386/screen-3.7.4-4.i386.rpm 6501aefe36c2f38cc1337c14141b0993 5.2/sparc/screen-3.7.4-4.sparc.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

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

Package List


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:058-03
Issue date: 2000-09-07
Updated on: 2000-09-07
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: screen exploit format
Cross references: N/A

Topic

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Linux 5.2 - i386, i586, i686, alpha, sparc, sparc64, sparcv9

Bugs Fixed

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