[wanger en redhat com: SECURITY - glibc]

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel en nuclecu unam mx>]

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A bug in glibc has been discovered that allows for a denial of service 
attack in ftpd.  The following packages correct this problem and all 
users of Red Hat Linux 5.0 using ftpd should upgrade.  As always, these 
packages have been signed with the Red Hat PGP key.

Mike

The updates are available as follows:

Red Hat 5.0
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i386:
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/5.0/i386/glibc-2.0.7-7.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/5.0/i386/glibc-debug-2.0.7-7.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/5.0/i386/glibc-devel-2.0.7-7.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/5.0/i386/glibc-profile-2.0.7-7.i386.rpm

alpha:
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/5.0/alpha/glibc-2.0.7-7.alpha.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/5.0/alpha/glibc-debug-2.0.7-7.alpha.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/5.0/alpha/glibc-devel-2.0.7-7.alpha.rpm
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/5.0/alpha/glibc-profile-2.0.7-7.alpha.rpm


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