minicom exploit

This advisory was posted Wed Apr 11 08:06:49 2001 to bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla and became inaccessable not long after. I went to add more information, a couple of days after and had been locked out, so I tried emailing the QAContact this information on Tue Apr 24 , but received no reply. Now...

Subject: [SECURITY] Debian not vulnerable to recent minicom exploit

Description Recent messages on a computer security forum have again reported that there are buffer overflows in minicom. These can lead into root exploits if the program is installed setuid root. Vulnerability Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 is not vulnerable to this exploit. The program minicom as shipped...