Bug#893497: buffer overflow in column(1)

Package: bsdmainutils Version: 9.0.12+nmu1 There is a buffer overflow in the column(1) command. One way to trigger it is to give it 512KB of zeroes: $ cat /dev/zero|head -c 524288 |column *** buffer overflow detected ***: column terminated === Backtrace: = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.

Bug#712289: openssh-server: invalid user logging skipped if username is capitalized version of a valid name

Package: openssh-server Version: 1:5.5p1-6+squeeze3 Severity: normal It appears that when authenticating using a public key the case of the username is important, but when evaluating whether to log failed login attempts a case-insenstive comparison is done. Backstory: I was attempting to help a n

Bug#479473: router outside subnet?

I'm not sure if this is related, but, since this bug is the only google hit for "dhclient.c(2129): null pointer" I figured I'd mention it here: I saw this message from dhclient on lenny when my ISC dhcpd was wrongly configured to specify a router that was outside of the client's subnet. HTH ~leif