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Subject: Re: [RHSA-2000:087-02] Potential security problems in ping fixed.
From: van der Kooij, Hugo (Hugo.van.der.KooijCAIW.NL)
Date: Fri Oct 20 2000 - 07:10:01 CDT

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Joe Laffey wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 bugzillaREDHAT.COM wrote:
>
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory
> >
> > Synopsis: Potential security problems in ping fixed.
> > Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:087-02
> > Issue date: 2000-10-17
> > Updated on: 2000-10-18
> > Product: Red Hat Linux
> > Keywords: ping buffer overflows
>
> [SNIP]
> > 2. Relevant releases/architectures:
> >
> > Red Hat Linux 6.2 - i386, alpha, sparc
> > Red Hat Linux 7.0 - i386
> > Red Hat Linux 7.0J - i386
>
> [snip]
>
> Does this apply to 6.0 as well?

As a rule of thumb:
Any fix for 6.x is for all version of 6.x So if one is announced for 6.2
you should considere 6.0 and 6.1 as suspect as well.

Hugo. 

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