[ Thanks to Benjamin
D. Thomas for this link. ]
“This week, advisories were released for lpr, LPRng, libutil,
gnorpm, traceroute, and xinitrc. The vendors include Conectiva,
Immunix, Mandrake, OpenBSD, and RedHat. It is critical that you
update all vulnerable packages. One of the more serious advisories
released this week is lpr.”
“One of the more serious advisories released this week is
lpr. There is a format string bug in lpd that could potentially be
exploited to gain local root access. There is also a bug in
traceroute that could result as a local root compromise.”
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