SECURITY: lpr-0.31 now available

From: Erik Troan (ewtat_private)
Date: Thu Apr 23 1998 - 08:41:14 PDT

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More buffer overflows have been found in lpr 0.30 as released on
Saturday. As these flaws may allow users to gain root access to the
local system, Red Hat Software recommends that all users upgrade to
lpr 0.31 immediately.

Thanks to Niall Smart for finding this problem.

Red Hat 5.0
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i386:
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/5.0/i386/lpr-0.31-1.i386.rpm

alpha:
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/5.0/alpha/lpr-0.31-1.alpha.rpm

Red Hat 4.2
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i386:
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/4.2/i386/lpr-0.31-0.i386.rpm

alpha:
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/4.2/alpha/lpr-0.31-0.alpha.rpm

SPARC:
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/updates/4.2/sparc/lpr-0.31-0.sparc.rpm

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