[17283] in bugtraq
Re: [RHSA-2000:087-02] Potential security problems in ping fixed.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (van der Kooij, Hugo)
Fri Oct 20 13:02:46 2000
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 14:10:01 +0200
Reply-To: Hugo.van.der.Kooij@CAIW.NL
From: "van der Kooij, Hugo" <Hugo.van.der.Kooij@CAIW.NL>
X-To: Joe Laffey <joe@LAFFEYCOMPUTER.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010181605260.31521-100000@alfred.laffeycomputer.com>
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Joe Laffey wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 bugzilla@REDHAT.COM wrote:
>
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory
> >
> > Synopsis: Potential security problems in ping fixed.
> > Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:087-02
> > Issue date: 2000-10-17
> > Updated on: 2000-10-18
> > Product: Red Hat Linux
> > Keywords: ping buffer overflows
>
> [SNIP]
> > 2. Relevant releases/architectures:
> >
> > Red Hat Linux 6.2 - i386, alpha, sparc
> > Red Hat Linux 7.0 - i386
> > Red Hat Linux 7.0J - i386
>
> [snip]
>
> Does this apply to 6.0 as well?
As a rule of thumb:
Any fix for 6.x is for all version of 6.x So if one is announced for 6.2
you should considere 6.0 and 6.1 as suspect as well.
Hugo.
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