Slackware Information for VU#542971

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• Statement Date:
• Date Updated: 13 Aug 2002

Status

Affected

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Vendor References

None

Addendum

Slackware changelogs reflect patches to glibc libraries:

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/ChangeLog.txt

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/ChangeLog.txt

Tue Jul 30 19:45:52 PDT 2002
...
 (* Security fix *)
patches/packages/glibc-2.2.5-i386-3.tgz:  Patched to fix a buffer overflow
  in glibc's DNS resolver functions that look up network addresses.
  Another workaround for this problem is to edit /etc/nsswtich.conf changing:
    networks:       files dns
  to:
    networks:       files
  (* Security fix *)
patches/packages/glibc-solibs-2.2.5-i386-3.tgz:  Patched to fix a buffer
  overflow in glibc's DNS resolver functions that look up network addresses.

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