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Bug 166580

Summary: CAN-2005-2665 elm buffer overflow
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: elmAssignee: Karsten Hopp <karsten>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 2.1Keywords: Security
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: impact=critical,public=20050820,source=fulldisclosure
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-755 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-08-23 18:15:47 UTC Type: ---
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Proposed patch for this issue. none

Description Josh Bressers 2005-08-23 15:32:11 UTC
Ulf Harnhammar discovered a buffer overflow bug in elm:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=112453609021500&w=2

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-08-23 15:33:19 UTC
This issue only affects RHEL2.1 AS and AW.

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-08-23 15:35:15 UTC
Created attachment 118006 [details]
Proposed patch for this issue.

Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-08-23 18:15:47 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-755.html