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              AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
                             
                     ESB-98.175 -- Red Hat Linux Bulletin
                       SECURITY: new sysklogd packages

                               17 November 1998

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Red Hat Software, Inc. has released the following advisory concerning a
buffer overflow vulnerability in the sysklogd package shipped with Red
Hat Linux.

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A buffer overflow has been identified in all versions of the sysklogd
packages shipped with Red Hat Linux. As the time of this post there are no
known exploits for this security vulnerability.

Red Hat would like to thank Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@IDS.PL> and the members
of the Bugtraq mailing list for discovering this problem and providing a
fix.

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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alpha:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/alpha/sysklogd-1.3-16.alpha.rpm

i386:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/i386/sysklogd-1.3-16.i386.rpm

sparc:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/sparc/sysklogd-1.3-16.sparc.rpm

Source rpm:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/SRPMS/sysklogd-1.3-16.src.rpm


Red Hat Linux 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2:
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alpha:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/alpha/sysklogd-1.3-26.alpha.rpm

i386:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/i386/sysklogd-1.3-26.i386.rpm

sparc:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/sparc/sysklogd-1.3-26.sparc.rpm

Source rpm:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/SRPMS/sysklogd-1.3-26.src.rpm

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