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Conectiva Linux Security Announcement – netscape

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 26, 2000
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 16:00:24 -0200
From: secure@CONECTIVA.COM.BR
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: [CLSA-2000:344] Conectiva Linux Security Announcement - netscape

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CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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PACKAGE   : netscape
SUMMARY   : Remote buffer overflow
DATE      : 2000-11-23 15:59:00
ID        : CLSA-2000:344
RELEVANT
RELEASES  : 4.0, 4.0es, 4.1, 4.2, 5.0, prg gráficos, ecommerce, 5.1

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DESCRIPTION
Netscape navigator and communicator versions 4.75 and earlier have a
buffer overflow in the HTML parsing code that can be exploited by a
remote attacker.


SOLUTION
All netscape users should upgrade immediately.


DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINKS TO THE UPDATED PACKAGES
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.0/SRPMS/netscape-4.76-5cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.0/i386/netscape-common-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.0/i386/netscape-navigator-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.0/i386/netscape-communicator-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.0es/SRPMS/netscape-4.76-5cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.0es/i386/netscape-common-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.0es/i386/netscape-navigator-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.0es/i386/netscape-communicator-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.1/SRPMS/netscape-4.76-5cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.1/i386/netscape-common-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.1/i386/netscape-navigator-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.1/i386/netscape-communicator-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.2/SRPMS/netscape-4.76-5cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.2/i386/netscape-common-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.2/i386/netscape-navigator-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/4.2/i386/netscape-communicator-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.0/SRPMS/netscape-4.76-5cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.0/i386/netscape-common-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.0/i386/netscape-navigator-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.0/i386/netscape-communicator-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/SRPMS/netscape-4.76-5cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/i386/netscape-common-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/i386/netscape-navigator-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/i386/netscape-communicator-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/ecommerce/SRPMS/netscape-4.76-5cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/ecommerce/i386/netscape-common-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/ecommerce/i386/netscape-navigator-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/ecommerce/i386/netscape-communicator-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/graficas/SRPMS/netscape-4.76-5cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/graficas/i386/netscape-common-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/graficas/i386/netscape-navigator-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/graficas/i386/netscape-communicator-4.76-5cl.i386.rpm


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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