Security problems with sysklogd | Linux Today

Security problems with sysklogd

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 16, 1998
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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:
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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:
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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

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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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