[LON-CAPA-admin] XFree86 security update for RedHat 7.3

[Jim Maxka]

Thank you  Martin -- I am stll at rh7 stage.and this is extremely 
helpful. -- I only wonder if you have a server with ftp access for these 
updates, so I can batch them. --jim

Martin Siegert wrote:

>There exist several buffer overflows that can be exploited by local
>users to gain root authority. For those of you who run RedHat 7.3:
>you can get updated packages at:
>
>http://www.sfu.ca/acs/security/linux/7.3/
>
>update info:
>
>rpm -Fvh XFree86-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-libs-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-twm-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-xdm-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-xf86cfg-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-xfs-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-Xnest-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-Xvfb-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-tools-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-base-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-devel-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-doc-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-font-utils-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm \
>         XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.2.1-24.i386.rpm
>
>(as usual: no warranties whatsoever; these packages were generated by
>recompiling the latest RedHat 7.3 packages with the security patch from
>Fedora 1 for the vulnerability mentioned above).
>
>Cheers,
>Martin
>
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