Re: m4 format string vulnerability [was: Re: SuSe / Debian man package ...]

[Ivo van Poorten]

On Saturday 03 February 2001 14:54, Mike Gerber wrote:
> confirmed for red hat linux 7.0:
>
> [kerouac:mg:~]m4 -G %x
> m4: 80499d9: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> [kerouac:mg:~]cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Linux release 7.0 (Guinness)
> [kerouac:mg:~]rpm -q m4
> m4-1.4.1-3

Same here:

[ivo@vanity ~]$ m4 -G %x
m4: 80497fb: No such file or directory
[ivo@vanity ~]$ rpm -q m4
m4-1.4-17mdk
[ivo@vanity ~]$ cat /etc/mandrake-release
Linux Mandrake release 7.2 (Odyssey) for i586

--Ivo

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