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SECURITY: New zgv and svgalib packages available

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 5, 1998
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Security problems have been found in svgalib and zgv. Fixes are
now availble for Red Hat 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2. We recommend all
users upgrade to these new releases. svgalib is only supported
on the i386 platform; this issue does not affect users of Alpha
and SPARC machines.

Red Hat would like to thank the users of the BUGTRAQ security
list for identifying the problem and Kevin Vajk 
for providing a fix.

Users of Red Hat Linux are recommended to upgrade to the new packages 
available under the updates directory on our ftp site:

* Red Hat Linux 4.2:
====================

i386:

rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/i386/svgalib-1.2.13-0.1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/i386/svgalib-devel-1.2.13-0.1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/i386/zgv-3.0-0.4.2.i386.rpm

source:

rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/SRPMS/svgalib-1.2.13-0.1.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/SRPMS/zgv-3.0-0.4.2.src.rpm

* Red Hat Linux 5.0: 
==================== 

i386:

rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.0/i386/svgalib-1.2.13-6.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.0/i386/svgalib-devel-1.2.13-6.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.0/i386/zgv-3.0-0.5.0.i386.rpm

source:

rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.0/SRPMS/svgalib-1.2.13-6.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.0/SRPMS/zgv-3.0-0.5.0.src.rpm

* Red Hat Linux 5.1: 
==================== 

i386:

rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.1/i386/svgalib-1.2.13-6.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.1/i386/svgalib-devel-1.2.13-6.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.1/i386/zgv-3.0-4.1.i386.rpm

source:

rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.1/SRPMS/svgalib-1.2.13-6.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.1/SRPMS/zgv-3.0-4.1.src.rpm

* Red Hat Linux 5.2: 
==================== 

i386:

rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/i386/svgalib-1.3.0-3.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/i386/svgalib-devel-1.3.0-3.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/i386/zgv-3.0-6.i386.rpm

source:

rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/SRPMS/svgalib-1.3.0-3.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/SRPMS/zgv-3.0-6.src.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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