Re: [SECURITY] New versions of gzip available

1998-05-17 Thread Christian Hudon
On Friday, May 15, George Bonser wrote > > Find a mirror of the Debian incoming directory ... I think there are some > listed on the Debian web page ... and grab the new debianutils and install > it manually with dpkg -i Debian 1.3.1r8 has been released with a debianutils that makes gzip happy. I

Re: [SECURITY] New versions of gzip available

1998-05-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 14 May, Martin Schulze wrote: > > We were told by Michal Zalewski that gzexe as shipped with gzip uses > > an unsecure method decompressing executables on the fly opening a way > > of calling arbitrary programs. Newer versions for bo and hamm are > > fixing this.

Re: [SECURITY] New versions of gzip available

1998-05-15 Thread Christian Hudon
On Thursday, May 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > [snip] > I can't seem to find a debianutils_1.6* under any of the bo* > directories on the ftp sites. Mea culpa. debianutils 1.8.9 has been uploaded to Incoming, and will be installed into bo. Sorry for the trouble. Christian pgpWSi309JchO.p

Re: [SECURITY] New versions of gzip available

1998-05-14 Thread servis
On 14 May, Martin Schulze wrote: > We were told by Michal Zalewski that gzexe as shipped with gzip uses > an unsecure method decompressing executables on the fly opening a way > of calling arbitrary programs. Newer versions for bo and hamm are > fixing this. We recommend you upgrade your gzip pac