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Re: A working glibc LANGUAGE xploit

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Collins)
Fri Dec 1 13:23:15 2000

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Date:         Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:25:51 -0500
Reply-To: Ben Collins <bcollins@DEBIAN.ORG>
From: Ben Collins <bcollins@DEBIAN.ORG>
X-To:         William Cordis <whcordis@SOUTHERN.EDU>
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              whcordis@SOUTHERN.EDU on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 07:51:38PM -0000

On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 07:51:38PM -0000, William Cordis wrote:
> >Tested on:       Red Hat 6.2, 6.1
> >                 SuSE 6.2
>
> Failed to work on Debian Gnu/Linux Potato (2.2r1).
> The Stock version of Potato (2.2) should be
> vulnerable but I don't have a box running that
> version to test since all the ones I'm using are
> kept up to date with the latest security patches.
> The bug was reported to be fixed with
> glibc-2.1.3-12 (August 31) which is a security
> update and incorporated into 2.2r1.

2.2 was vulnerable, but obviously we fixed it, and announced that fix, and
it was incorporated in 2.2r1.

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