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<li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3> |
<li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3> |
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>025: SECURITY FIX: Oct 3, 2000</strong></font><br> |
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A format string vulnerability exists in the pw_error(3) function. This |
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manifests itself as a security hole in the chpass utility. As a workaround |
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which disables its functionality, do |
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# chmod u-s /usr/bin/chpass |
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<a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.7/common/025_pw_error.patch> |
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A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a> |
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>024: SECURITY FIX: Sep 18, 2000</strong></font><br> |
<li><font color=#009000><strong>024: SECURITY FIX: Sep 18, 2000</strong></font><br> |
Bad ESP/AH packets could cause a crash under certain conditions. |
Bad ESP/AH packets could cause a crash under certain conditions. |
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<a name=xlock></a> |
<a name=xlock></a> |
<li><font color=#009000><strong>023: SECURITY FIX: Aug 16, 2000</strong></font><br> |
<li><font color=#009000><strong>023: SECURITY FIX: Aug 16, 2000</strong></font><br> |
A format string vulnerability exists in xlock. As a workaround which disables |
A format string vulnerability exists in xlock. As a workaround which disables |
it's functionality, do |
its functionality, do |
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# chmod u-s /usr/X11R6/bin/xlock |
# chmod u-s /usr/X11R6/bin/xlock |
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