Re: Buffer overflow in "lpr"

Jordan Ritter (jpr5@DARKRIDGE.EECS.LEHIGH.EDU)
Tue, 08 Jul 1997 08:09:19 -0400

On Thu, 4 Jul 1996, a42n8k9 wrote:

> code used was from BSD 4.4 and tested Linux 2.0.0

In RedHat Linux 4.1, lpr-0.13-1, the buffer overflow is caught and the
exploit will not work. It appears to already have been fixed.

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Jordan Ritter
Systems Administrator                 Assistant Systems Administrator
E.M.C.S., AMP, Inc.                      Department of EECS, Vast Lab
Harrisburg, PA                       Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA


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