Security update for glibc
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(Last modified: 25NOV2004)
solutions Security update for glibc SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (cdecd984b302ccff11f93eddbf4e1578)
glibc-devel
glibc-locale
Product(s): SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IPF
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM iSeries and IBM pSeries
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM S/390 and IBM zSeries
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM zSeries
Release: 20041125
Obsoletes: none
An attacker can send malformated DNS packets from a DNS server to trigger the
bug in the function getnetbyname(), and getnetbyaddr() to execute arbitrary
code remotely. CAN-2002-0029
rpm -Fvh glibc.rpm glibc-devel.rpm glibc-locale.rpm
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