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GLSA: GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT |
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PACKAGE : app-admin/syslog-ng |
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VERSION : 1.5.20 and below |
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SUMMARY : buffer overflow vulnerability |
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DATE : Sat Oct 12 10:31:38 UTC 2002 |
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OVERVIEW |
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Macros can be used to identify message destinations and also to specify |
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contents of destination files. Macros are expanded in a fixed length |
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buffer with no bounds-checking. This is not a problem with the default |
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configuration. |
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DETAIL |
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The full advisory may be found here: |
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http://www.balabit.hu/static/zsa/ZSA-2002-014-en.txt |
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SOLUTION |
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It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running |
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app-admin/syslog-ng-1.5.20* and earlier update their |
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systems as follows. |
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emerge rsync |
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emerge syslog-ng |
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emerge clean |
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blocke@g.o |
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seemant@g.o |
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drobbins@g.o |
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Seemant Kulleen |
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Developer and Project Co-ordinator, |
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Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/~seemant |
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