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              AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
                                    
                    ESB-98.173 -- Red Hat Linux Bulletin
                   SECURITY: new libc 5 packages available
                                    
                              13 November 1998

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Red Hat Software, Inc. has released the following advisory concerning
a buffer overflow vulnerability in the libc 5 packages shipped with Red Hat 
Linux running on Intel and Sparc architectures.  

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A buffer overflow has been identified in all versions of the libc 5 packages
shipped with Red Hat Linux. The most affected systems are those that are
libc 5 based (Red Hat Linux 4.2 and older). Only Intel and Sparc
architectures are affected.

The Red Hat Linux 5.x releases are glibc (libc 6) based, and Red Hat does
not ship any binaries linked against libc 5 that might be used for
compromising the system's security. However, Red Hat Linux 5.x releases do
include for backwards compatibility a package containg a vulnerable library.

Users of Red Hat Linux are recommended to upgrade to the new packages
available under updates directory on our ftp site:

Red Hat Linux 4.2:
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i386:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/i386/libc-5.3.12-18.4.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/i386/libc-debug-5.3.12-18.4.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/i386/libc-devel-5.3.12-18.4.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/i386/libc-profile-5.3.12-18.4.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/i386/libc-static-5.3.12-18.4.i386.rpm

sparc:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/sparc/libc-5.3.12-18.4.sparc.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/sparc/libc-debug-5.3.12-18.4.sparc.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/sparc/libc-devel-5.3.12-18.4.sparc.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/sparc/libc-profile-5.3.12-18.4.sparc.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/sparc/libc-static-5.3.12-18.4.sparc.rpm

Source rpm:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/SRPMS/libc-5.3.12-18.4.src.rpm


Red Hat Linux 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2:
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i386:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/i386/libc-5.3.12-28.i386.rpm

Source rpm:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/SRPMS/libc-5.3.12-28.src.rpm


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