On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:25 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > At the risk of looking like a complete idiot, I'd like to report an > apparently serious problem with the recent glibc etc stuff in (I think) > Fedora-Development. > > In an excess of zeal yesterday I upgraded some packages from the > development set and now various programs report "buffer overflow detected" > and like messages, and abort. These programs include bash and my usual > mail reader. I've reverted my glibc to 2.3.4 from fedora-updates and > things are a bit better but not totally fixed, so I figure I've still > got some more packages to locate and revert:-( please please please file bugs about these... we really have to fix all of these urgently since buffer overflows are one of the most dangerous security exploit vectors!
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