util-linux advisory

[Jesse Keating]

On Thursday 05 February 2004 08:57, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> I noticed a new security advisory for Red Hat Enterprise 2.x:
>
>   https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-056.html
>
> I poked around the changelog and noted what Bill Nottingham had
> patched. It appears that Red Hat 8.0 is *not* vulnerable to this info
> leak. I don't have any more 7.x boxen, but it might be worthwhile for
> someone to poke at the util-linux packages for the 7.x releases to
> see if any work needs to be done on them.

Hi Paul. 

This flaw is only a flaw in RHL 7.2, and there is currently a util-linux 
package in testing phase.  A package exists right now in a testing 
phase that needs one more vote of PUBLISH before I can push it to 
updates-testing.  

https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1256

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