Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDKSA-2004:009)

A read buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the resolver code in versions of glibc up to and including 2.2.5. The vulnerability is triggered by DNS packets larger than 1024 bytes, which can cause an application to crash. The updated packages have a patch applied to correct the problem...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security update

Updated glibc packages are available to fix a buffer overflow in the resolver. The GNU C library package, glibc, contains standard libraries used by multiple programs on the system. A read buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the glibc resolver code in versions of glibc up to and including...

DEBIAN-CVE-2002-1146

The BIND 4 and BIND 8.2.x stub resolver libraries, and other libraries such as glibc 2.2.5 and earlier, libc, and libresolv, use the maximum buffer size instead of the actual size when processing a DNS response, which causes the stub resolvers to read past the actual boundary "read buffer...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: nss_ldap ecurity update

Updated nssldap packages are now available for Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1. These updates fix a potential buffer overflow which can occur when nssldap is set to configure itself using information stored in DNS as well as a format string bug in logging functions used in pamldap. Updated 09 J...