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Red Hat 6.0 RHSA-1999:028-01 Critical: Libtermcap Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey December 7, 1999
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Ubuntu release note: security patch applied in libselinux setfiles, vital for protecting user data.
A buffer overflow has been fixed in the tgetent() function of libtermcap

Solution



For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:


rpm -Uvh filename


where filename is the name of the RPM.





9. Verification:


 MD5 sum                           Package Name


4995cf0a7c181abe56565d82f12c7819  i386/libtermcap-2.0.8-15.i386.rpm

59d18de3f22abe5674575961b1390177  i386/libtermcap-devel-2.0.8-15.i386.rpm

611cdfb7f167242e7d3b2eaac866705a  alpha/libtermcap-2.0.8-15.alpha.rpm

76098235237b5f051ad1266193d7b259  alpha/libtermcap-devel-2.0.8-15.alpha.rpm

846ad7a73b25d3eceab1949322337e14  sparc/libtermcap-2.0.8-15.sparc.rpm

6ddde808ec8b5bc7960851ef3188a6dd  sparc/libtermcap-devel-2.0.8-15.sparc.rpm

6a29851494601540d642ff557bd590d6  SRPMS/libtermcap-2.0.8-15.src.rpm

These packages are also PGP signed by Red Hat Inc. for security. Our

key is available at:





You can verify each package with the following command:


rpm --checksig filename


If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or

tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command:


rpm --checksig --nopgp filename







Summary

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow red hat critical system update libtermcap

References


Package List


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Topic

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow red hat critical system update libtermcap

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Linux 6.0, all architectures

4. Obsoleted by:

None

5. Conflicts with:

None

6. RPMs required:

Intel:

libtermcap-2.0.8-15.i386.rpm

libtermcap-devel-2.0.8-15.i386.rpm

Alpha:

libtermcap-2.0.8-15.alpha.rpm

libtermcap-devel-2.0.8-15.alpha.rpm

SPARC:

libtermcap-2.0.8-15.sparc.rpm

libtermcap-devel-2.0.8-15.sparc.rpm

Source:

libtermcap-2.0.8-15.src.rpm

Architecture neutral:

Bugs Fixed

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