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Re: Vulnrability in all known Linux distributions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Wed Aug 14 16:38:16 1996
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 10:08:35 +0100
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From: Alan Cox <alan@cableol.net>
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"Elliot Lee" at Aug 13, 96 11:36:30 am
> I think you are confusing 5.2.18 and 5.3.12. Here's the rundown:
> - 5.2.18 is an older, but still widely used, libc.
> - 5.3.12 is the latest release (i.e. "stable") libc.
> - 5.4.4 is the latest beta/development libc.
>
> Any solutions to the libc problem would definitely be appreciated :-)
There are a pile more in 5.2.18. I've just posted a list to linux-gcc.
Worse still some of the overruns I found are environment variable based,
and in BSD code from 1983, and resolv+ both widely used pieces.
Alan
