Bug 160778 - Ethereal must be PIE
Summary: Ethereal must be PIE
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ethereal (Show other bugs)
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Version: 4.0
Hardware: All Linux
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Assignee: Radek Vokal
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Reported: 2005-06-17 09:06 UTC by Mark J. Cox
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-11-18 11:09:42 UTC
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Description Mark J. Cox 2005-06-17 09:06:41 UTC 
Ethereal (tethereal and gnome ethereal) are currently not compiled as position
independant executables (PIE).  A number of security issues recently would have
been mitigated somewhat by having Ethereal as PIE.  This is a request that the
next Ethereal update (be it a security update or the next RHEL Update release)
be compiled PIE on RHEL4 and RHEL3.
Comment 6 Mark J. Cox 2005-08-02 09:08:33 UTC 
Removing from RHEL3U7Proposed since this will go out in an async Ethereal
security update  RHSA-2005:687
Comment 7 Jindrich Novy 2005-08-02 13:30:44 UTC 
Yes, I added some fixes so that ethereal and tethereal is now compiled as PIE.

The new packages will be added to RHSA-2005:687.
Comment 8 Mark J. Cox 2005-11-18 11:09:42 UTC 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-687.html came out on 10th August 2005
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