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              AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
                             
                       ESB-1999.088 -- RHSA-1999:017-01
             Potential security problem in Red Hat 6.0 net-tools
                                25 June 1999

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Red Hat Software, Inc. has released the following advisory concerning
buffer overrun security problems in the Red Hat 6.0 net-tools package.

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		   Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory

Synopsis:		Potential security problem in Red Hat 6.0 net-tools.
Advisory ID:		RHSA-1999:017-01
Issue date:		1999-06-24
Keywords:		net-tools buffer overruns
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1. Topic: 

A potential security problem has been fixed in the net-tools package.

2. Bug IDs fixed: 

3. Relevant releases/architectures: 

Red Hat Linux 6.0, all architectures

4. Obsoleted by:

5. Conflicts with:

6. RPMs required:

Intel: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/i386

	net-tools-1.52-2.i386.rpm

Alpha: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/alpha

	net-tools-1.52-2.alpha.rpm

Sparc: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/sparc

	net-tools-1.52-2.sparc.rpm

7. Problem description:

Several potential buffer overruns have been corrected within the net-tools
package.

8. Solution:

9. Verification:

MD5 sum                           Package Name
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3ca7a4b36ca8269c5546308c904d705b  SRPMS/net-tools-1.52-2.src.rpm
aaacb5aa6001e32c7c12fa178e90eca9  alpha/net-tools-1.52-2.alpha.rpm
6707f4c30ee19874025b6d1b8cc1dee0  i386/net-tools-1.52-2.i386.rpm
c12dacbdc3f761afa09d8e8b4e60f081  sparc/net-tools-1.52-2.sparc.rpm


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10. References:

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