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              AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

                             
                     ESB-98.171 -- Red Hat Linux Bulletin
                SECURITY: New zgv and svgalib packages available

                               06 November 1998

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Red Hat Software, Inc. has released the following advisory concerning
vulnerabilities in the zgv and svgalib packages.


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Security problems have been found in svgalib and zgv. Fixes are now
available for Red Hat 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2. We recommend all users upgrade
to these new releases. svgalib is only supported on the i386 platform;
this issue does not affect users of Alpha and SPARC machines.

Red Hat would like to thank the users of the BUGTRAQ security list for
identifying the problem and Kevin Vajk <kvajk@ricochet.net> for providing
a fix.

Users of Red Hat Linux are recommended to upgrade to the new packages
available under the updates directory on our ftp site:
 
* Red Hat Linux 4.2:
====================
 
i386:
 
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/i386/svgalib-1.2.13-0.1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/i386/svgalib-devel-1.2.13-0.1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/i386/zgv-3.0-0.4.2.i386.rpm
 
source:
 
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/SRPMS/svgalib-1.2.13-0.1.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/SRPMS/zgv-3.0-0.4.2.src.rpm
 
* Red Hat Linux 5.0: 
==================== 
 
i386:
 
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.0/i386/svgalib-1.2.13-6.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.0/i386/svgalib-devel-1.2.13-6.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.0/i386/zgv-3.0-0.5.0.i386.rpm
 
source:
 
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.0/SRPMS/svgalib-1.2.13-6.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.0/SRPMS/zgv-3.0-0.5.0.src.rpm
 
* Red Hat Linux 5.1: 
==================== 

i386:
 
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.1/i386/svgalib-1.2.13-6.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.1/i386/svgalib-devel-1.2.13-6.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.1/i386/zgv-3.0-4.1.i386.rpm
 
source:
 
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.1/SRPMS/svgalib-1.2.13-6.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.1/SRPMS/zgv-3.0-4.1.src.rpm
 
* Red Hat Linux 5.2: 
==================== 
 
i386:
 
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/i386/svgalib-1.3.0-3.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/i386/svgalib-devel-1.3.0-3.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/i386/zgv-3.0-6.i386.rpm
 
source:

rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/SRPMS/svgalib-1.3.0-3.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/SRPMS/zgv-3.0-6.src.rpm
 

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