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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jerry Bell" <jerry@syslog.org>
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Subject: Re: RedHat: Buffer Overflow in 'ls' and 'mkdir'
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A healthy bit of skepticism goes a long way.  I choked on the first
sentence: "Redhat found a vulnerability in fileutils (ls and mkdir), that
could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root
privileges."  The word "remote" stands out like a sore thumb to me.

Jerry
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