-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- A buffer overflow has been identified in all versions of the sysklogd packages shipped with Red Hat Linux. As the time of this post there are no known exploits for this security vulnerability. Red Hat would like to thank Michal Zalewski and the members of the Bugtraq mailing list for discovering this problem and providing a fix. Users of Red Hat Linux are recommended to upgrade to the new packages available under updates directory on our ftp site: Red Hat Linux 4.2: ================== alpha: rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/alpha/sysklogd-1.3-16.alpha.rpm i386: rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/i386/sysklogd-1.3-16.i386.rpm sparc: rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/sparc/sysklogd-1.3-16.sparc.rpm Source rpm: rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/SRPMS/sysklogd-1.3-16.src.rpm Red Hat Linux 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2: =============================== alpha: rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/alpha/sysklogd-1.3-26.alpha.rpm i386: rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/i386/sysklogd-1.3-26.i386.rpm sparc: rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/sparc/sysklogd-1.3-26.sparc.rpm Source rpm: rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/SRPMS/sysklogd-1.3-26.src.rpm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNlCMUvGvxKXU9NkBAQET9gP9GuzSEhW/M+y4LHFMfKdTXdAwH4L/1XpZ /spBSMW8ugzGsdpRL6LsDnvepbCPD8IXUhOn7Ts8gbcxtUEG/7dxOP95+ZNdH6h/ 7G+gSqCO3O3Xm765ExE6FfB5TuNQvXZ4howxQeqJGg8s9g06rj5j1i2Bl4GyzyM9 3k3ZwfHrAvs= =YvxF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----