Re: glibc vulnerability
Marnix Kaart <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.lfs.security |
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On Sunday 15 June 2003 02:23, Dagmar d'Surreal wrote: > Your installation is not vulnerable to _remote_ exploits using the XDR > code. However, it may be vulnerable to exploitation by local users. It > is also a very bad practice to leave known flawed code installed on > production machines. > > Seriously tho. If you follow the ch6 instructions, compiling > glibc-2.3.2 is no different from 2.3.1. No chrooting needed. If > everything passes the self-tests (make check or make test, can't > remember right now and I script it anyway) there's only an infinitesimal > chance something could go wrong moving from glibc-2.3.1 to glibc-2.3.2. Thanks a lot for your help (both here as on blfs-support)! Marnix -- Marnix Kaart Reg. Linux User #267495 http://counter.li.org Reg. LFS User #5496 http://linuxfromscratch.org () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against proprietary formats -- -- Unsubscribe: send email to [email protected] and put 'unsubscribe lfs-security' in the subject header of the message