[6018] in bugtraq
Re: Security Problem in MH 6.8.4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Tue Jan 20 15:29:28 1998
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 20:09:45 +0000
Reply-To: Alan Cox <alan@LXORGUK.UKUU.ORG.UK>
From: Alan Cox <alan@LXORGUK.UKUU.ORG.UK>
X-To: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199801200821.AAA02001@cwsys.cwsent.com> from "Cy Schubert - ITSD
Open Systems Group" at Jan 20, 98 00:20:44 am
> The Linux bug is definitely a security issue. I suspect it to be in RedHat's
> implementation of libc.
The original glibc 2.0.5 had hostname bugs (discussed here a while ago), a
fix for those has been out for a while
