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Patrick Powell Information for VU#382365

Date Notified
Date Modified04/20/2002 06:17:42 PM
Status SummaryVulnerable

Vendor Statement

Patrick Powell is the author responsible for development of this version of LPRng.

Extract from CHANGES in LPRng-3.6.25 distribution at:

ftp://ftp.astart.com/pub/LPRng/LPRng/LPRng-3.6.25.tgz

Release LPRng 3.6.25 Tue Oct 3 09:19:11 PDT 2000
syslog Compromise -
modified syslog to use 'syslog(xx,"%s", msg).
gettext Compromise -
added the following to Initialize():
if( getuid() == 0 || geteuid() == 0 ) unsetenv("NLSPATH");

See the various CERT advisories. Sigh...


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