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Originally Published: Monday, 4 September 2000 Author: Alexander Reelsen
Published to: news_enhance_security/Security News Page: 1/1 - [Printable]

Weekly Linux Security Digest 2000/08/28 to 2000/09/03

[SP] The big news this week is a potential glibc hole, for which no exploit code exists - but vendors are issuing fixes.The other is mgetty - in certain configurations it can be used to overwrite files. Vendors have been issuing updates. In general, the rest is catch-up with older problems like Zope, Netscape and Xchat.



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