Buffer overflow in zlib

2005-07-09 Thread José Carlos Carrión Plaza
Dear list members: Anyone knows about the gentoo linux security advisor labeled «GLSA 200507-05 / zlib»? (More information can be founded at http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-05.xml ) The problem is a buffer overflow in zlib that permits the execution of arbitrary code in

Re: Buffer overflow in zlib

2005-07-09 Thread Matthew Burgess
José Carlos Carrión Plaza wrote: Dear list members: Anyone knows about the gentoo linux security advisor labeled «GLSA 200507-05 / zlib»? Yep, we've fixed this in LFS-6.1-pre2 and also the devlopment (trunk) version of the book. But which are the programs of LFS and BLFS that are been

how to login root shell

2005-07-09 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, FC3 === After booting the PC how to login root shell with bash prompt as root:/# I already re-ran following commands [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# export LFS=/mnt/lfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mkdir -p $LFS/{proc,sys} [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mount -t proc proc $LFS/proc [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mount

Re: Kernel module problem - invalid module format; stops system from booting

2005-07-09 Thread Lennon Cook
On 7/8/05, Declan Moriarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Move or rename the /lib/modules/kernel-version subdir before you do make modules_install. You can build, fix grub, and so forth before the modules_install. Also be aware that the 'depmod -ae -F' that the kernel runs checks _all_ the

LFS-6.1 released

2005-07-09 Thread Matthew Burgess
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS 6.1. This release includes a large number of package upgrades (including Linux-2.6.11.12, GCC-3.4.3 and Glibc-2.3.4) and security fixes (including the recently disclosed zlib vulnerability). It also includes a large

How to build an entire LFS system using uclibc instead of glibc

2005-07-09 Thread Razvan Cristian
I have built a LFS system, and I would like to find out how I could build it using uclibc instead of glibc. I'm not interested on putting it on a floppy or something, I just want to build a system which should be as large as 30-40 MB. As I've seen, binaries compiled against uclibc are very

Re: Buffer overflow in zlib

2005-07-09 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 10:35:41PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: On my 6.1-testing system, _nothing_ shows except rsync's modified version of zlib. OT, *why* does rsync do this? I've Googled lots of discussions about making gzip rsync-friendly but it's not clear if this has been implemented, or

Re: How to build an entire LFS system using uclibc instead of glibc

2005-07-09 Thread steve crosby
On 7/10/05, Razvan Cristian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have built a LFS system, and I would like to find out how I could build it using uclibc instead of glibc. I'm not interested on putting it on a floppy or something, I just want to build a system which should be as large as 30-40 MB.

ReiserFS on LFS

2005-07-09 Thread Rodrigo Lopes
Hi there, this is my first post on the list. I'm stating my studies to build my LFS... My first question is: Is there many diferences to build my LFS with ext2 and with ReiserFS ? My host Linux suports ReiserFS and I have alerady formated my LFS partition with ReiserFS... I think that the