Re: Segfault in login on debian potatoR2

[Mike Fedyk <mikef () MATCHMAIL COM>]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 09:55:46PM -0700, Allen J. Newton wrote:
> BORBELY Zoltan wrote:
> > Date:         Sat, 10 Mar 2001 11:02:42 +0100
> > Subject:      Re: Segfault in login on debian potatoR2
>
> > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 04:04:11PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > > I don't know if this could be exploited is any way, but here's something
> > > that I've seen.  This is on x86 on two machines and a ppc g3.
> > >
> > > #su
> > > #login
> > > login:
> > > ^D
> > > Segmentation fault
> > >
> > > Maybe you guys can check this more.
> >
> > I've checked it in RedHat Linux 7.0/i386:
>
> Yes, I had this problem with RH7.0 with all the updates until...
>
> glibc-2.2-12.rpm fixes this.  I saw on another list that this was a known (but
> not terribly WELL known) problem with glibc < 2.2-12.
>
> --
> Allen J. Newton  (anewton () alturia fleet org) -- Team *AMIGA*

Debian 2.2 (potato) uses glibc 2.1.3

mikef@mikef-linux-x86:/usr/home/mikef$ apt-cache show libc6
[snip]
Version: 2.1.3-13
[snip]