Jason claimed testing the vulnerability was not trivial. I am not certain. We can come up with RedHat 8 packages. I can put one together right now. -- Christian Pearce http://www.commnav.com Jesse Keating said: > > On Tuesday 06 January 2004 20:22, Jason wrote: > > The 7.3 rpms work for me.. I don't have a 7.2 box available to test > > that one. > > > > The default in 7.3 is to not suid the screen binary, so I think we're > > safe from privilege escalation (unless the user does it of their own > > volition). But, I am a bit concerned with the idea that someone > > could hijack my screen session. So, is this a patch we want to push? > > If so, we should patch the RH8 rpms as well. RH hasn't yet released > > a patch for 9, though it has a vulnerable version. > > Since I use screen daily on a 7.3 box, this is a fairly important one to > me. I'd like to see it fixed for 8 as well. Hopefully I'll have a 7.2 > box up to test tonight although it may have to wait for a harddrive ): > > Do you have a way of testing the overflow, or are we just testing > functionality of screen once this patch is added? > > -- > Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE (geek.j2solutions.net) > Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraLegacy) > Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) > GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) > > Was I helpful? Let others know: > http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
