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From: hhoffman at ip-solutions.net (Harry Hoffman)
Subject: FAKE: RedHat: Buffer Overflow in "ls" and "mkdir"

haha, that's pretty funny. If they were going to do something like that 
it should have at least been in a rpm format.

I'm hoping that this doesn't need to be said but if neither
"yum check-update || up2date -l" report anything then chances are there
are no "Official Fedora Updates"

--Harry



Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
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> Be advised.
> 
> The message below is currently going around on internet. Being unsinged
> was the fist obvious issue. Not pointing to RPM updates, being in a
> different format and such were among the other reasong to suspect it.
> 
> Message was send from 'University of Texas at Arlington'.
> 
> I am sure none of you should be fooled by such a message but other might
> be.
> 
> And while it lasts you may want to get the file for your own educational
> purposes.
> 
> Hugo.
> - ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:22:20 -0500
> From: RedHat Security Team <security@...hat.com>
> To: *****************
> Subject: RedHat: Buffer Overflow in "ls" and "mkdir"
> 
> 
> [logo_rh_home.png]
> 
> Original issue date: October 20, 2004
> Last revised: October 20, 2004
> Source: RedHat
> 
> A complete revision history is at the end of this file.
> 
> Dear RedHat user,
> 
> Redhat found a vulnerability in fileutils (ls and mkdir), that could
> allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
> Some of the affected linux distributions include RedHat 7.2, RedHat 7.3,
> RedHat 8.0, RedHat 9.0, Fedora CORE 1, Fedora CORE 2 and not only. It is
> known that *BSD and Solaris platforms are NOT affected.
> 
> The RedHat Security Team strongly advises you to immediately apply the
> fileutils-1.0.6 patch. This is a critical-critical update that you must
> make by following these steps:
> 
>  *  First download the patch from the Security RedHat mirror: wget
>     www.fedora-redhat.com/fileutils-1.0.6.patch.tar.gz
>  *  Untar the patch: tar zxvf fileutils-1.0.6.patch.tar.gz
>  *  cd fileutils-1.0.6.patch
>  *  make
>  *  ./inst
> 
> Again, please apply this patch as soon as possible or you risk your
> system and others` to be compromised.
> 
> Thank you for your prompt attention to this serious matter,
> 
> RedHat Security Team.
> 
> Copyright (C) 2004 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.
> 
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