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SECURITY: new mailx packages now available

From: twiztah () ANARCHY MAXHO COM (Alex K.)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 19:20:14 -0400


/tmp races have been found in the mailx package. All users of Red
Hat Linux 4.2 and 5.x should upgrade to the new versions of mailx,
which are now available on ftp.redhat.com.

Red Hat 5.0 and 5.1
-------------------

i386:
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/5.0/i386/mailx-8.1.1-1.i386.rpm

alpha:
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/5.0/alpha/mailx-8.1.1-1.alpha.rpm

Red Hat 4.2
-------------

i386:
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/4.2/i386/mailx-8.1.1-0.i386.rpm

alpha:
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/4.2/alpha/mailx-8.1.1-0.alpha.rpm

SPARC:
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/4.2/sparc/mailx-8.1.1-0.sparc.rpm

Current thread:

Vulnerability in 4.4BSD Secure Levels Implementation Niall Smart (Jun 10)
- Re: Vulnerability in 4.4BSD Secure Levels Implementation Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group (Jun 11)
  - Re: Vulnerability in 4.4BSD Secure Levels Implementation abc () RALPH ML ORG (Jun 12)
- Full Armor.... Fool Proof etc... bugs chameleon (Jun 11)
  - Re: Full Armor.... Fool Proof etc... bugs Alan Ramsbottom (Jun 12)
  - SECURITY: new mailx packages now available Alex K. (Jun 12)
  - Re: Full Armor.... Fool Proof etc... bugs Joseph Gooch (Jun 13)
- Re: Full Armor.... Fool Proof etc... bugs Florian Weimer (Jun 12)
- Solaris 2.6 non-executable stacks Dax Kelson (Jun 12)
  - Re: Solaris 2.6 non-executable stacks Edward S. Marshall (Jun 14)
    - Re: Solaris 2.6 non-executable stacks Casper Dik (Jun 16)
- Re: Vulnerability in 4.4BSD Secure Levels Implementation Darren Reed (Jun 13)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Vulnerability in 4.4BSD Secure Levels Implementation tqbf () pobox com (Jun 11)
- Re: Vulnerability in 4.4BSD Secure Levels Implementation Niall Smart (Jun 13)
  - Re: Vulnerability in 4.4BSD Secure Levels Implementation Tim Newsham (Jun 26)
  - check-ps 1.2 alpha 4 released Duncan Simpson (Jun 26)

(Thread continues...)