Re: patch for screen
Christopher J. Pace (cpace@hnsg.net) said:
> Timo Sirainen reported a vulnerability in screen in which an attacker can
> gain the privledges of the user/group in which screen runs as. I have
> used his submitted patch to create a .deb for Debian users, since Debian
> security is bogged down @ the moment.
Quoting http://bugs.debian.org/222385 (screen: buffer overflow):
> woody packages are at
> http://pkg-screen.alioth.debian.org/woody-security/ and the security
> team was made aware of them.
>
> sid packages have been uploaded... maybe someday they'll be built and
> moved into sarge.
>
> This bug will be closed when they both make it into their appropriate
> dists.
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Adam Lazur, Cluster Monkey
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