Roman Drahtmueller <draht@suse.de> writes: [snip]
1) problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information
An integer overflow has been discovered in the xdr_array() function, contained in the Sun Microsystems RPC/XDR library, which is part of the glibc library package on all SuSE products. This overflow allows a remote attacker to overflow a buffer, leading to remote execution of arbitrary code supplied by the attacker.
There is no temporary workaround for this security problem other than disabling all RPC based server and client programs. The permanent solution is to update the glibc packages with the update packages listed below.
Notes, Special installation instructions:
* The update packages for the SuSE Linux distributions 7.0 and 7.1 have not been built yet. The packages for these distributions will be published in approximately two weeks (mid September) from now.
[snip] Umm, Roman, that isn't much help. You might as well say "don't use your system for 2 weeks". Why the long delay for 7.0 and 7.1? I don't like to whine, but geez... -- Alan Hadsell If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough.