Update: Overflowable buffer in earlier versions of glibc

LinuxToday reports an overflowable buffer exists in earlier versions of glibc glob(3) implementation. It may be possible to exploit programs that pass user modifiable input to the glibc glob function.

Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Linux 6.2 - alpha, i386, i686, sparc, sparcv9.

Red Hat Linux 7.0 - alpha, alphaev6, i386, i686.

Red Hat Linux 7.1 - alpha, alphaev6, i386, i686, ia64.

Red Hat Linux 7.2 - i386, i686.

More infor at http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-12-14-016-20-SC-RH

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