Slackware 9.0: SSA:2003-141-03 Critical: Glibc Buffer Overflow
slackware
May 22, 2003
An integer overflow in the xdrmem_getbytes() function found in the glibc library has been fixed.
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 9.0 ChangeLog: Tue May 20 20:13:09 PDT 2003 patches/packages/glibc-2.3.1-i386-4.tgz: Patched, recompiled. (* Security fix *) patches/packages/glibc-debug-2.3.1-i386-4.tgz: Patched, recompiled. (* Security fix *) patches/packages/glibc-i18n-2.3.1-noarch-4.tgz: Rebuilt. patches/packages/glibc-profile-2.3.1-i386-4.tgz: Patched, recompiled. (* Security fix *) patches/packages/glibc-solibs-2.3.1-i386-4.tgz: Patched a buffer overflow in some dead code (xdrmem_getbytes(), which we couldn't find used by anything, but it doesn't hurt to patch it anyway) (* Security fix *) patches/packages/glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.1-noarch-4.tgz: Rebuilt. WHERE TO FIND THE NEW PACKAGES: Updated packages for Slackware 8.1: Updated packages for Slackware 9.0: MD5 SIGNATURES: Slackware 8.1 packages: ae235701abcccdc726789c9af5a0eb7b glibc-2.2.5-i386-4.tgz 83714476158d8f93a1f597bfdc6945e7 glibc-solibs-2.2.5-i386-4.tgz Slackware 9.0
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