Re: Vulnrability in all known Linux distributions

[sopwith () redhat com (Elliot Lee)]

On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Alan Brown wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Steve Czetty wrote:
>
> > The problem in this case happens to be in the libc implementation of
> > realpath(), so I plan to post a patch against libc 5.3.12 shortly as well, and
>
> The current libc is 5.3.18, a patch against this would be better. :)

I think you are confusing 5.2.18 and 5.3.12. Here's the rundown:
        - 5.2.18 is an older, but still widely used, libc.
        - 5.3.12 is the latest release (i.e. "stable") libc.
        - 5.4.4 is the latest beta/development libc.

Any solutions to the libc problem would definitely be appreciated :-)

Hope this helps,

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