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Giorgio
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 11:05 pm Post subject: Does it mean we have to rebuild everything?

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http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/other_advisory-3017.html

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Systems Affected

Applications using vulnerable implementations of SunRPC-derived XDR
libraries, which include
* Sun Microsystems network services library (libnsl)
* BSD-derived libraries with XDR/RPC routines (libc)
* GNU C library with sunrpc (glibc)

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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 11:38 pm Post subject:

you would only need to rebuild glibc and any other application wich has staticly linked glibc. all other applications using glibc are probably not affected. cheers SteveB

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Giorgio
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 7:29 pm Post subject:

Uh, thanks so much

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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 2:17 am Post subject:

no problem

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