Re: [LI] [RHSA-1999:028-01] Buffer overflow in libtermcap tgetent()

[Raj Mathur <raju@xxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Sudhakar" == Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <thaths@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Sudhakar> Bill Nottingham proclaimed:
    >> FYI -- Raju
    >> 
    >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
    >> Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory
    >> 
    >> Synopsis: Buffer overflow in libtermcap tgetent() Advisory ID:
    >> RHSA-1999:028-01 Issue date: 1999-08-17 Updated on: Keywords:
    >> termcap xterm Cross references:
    >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------


    Sudhakar> <snip>


    Sudhakar> OK.  OK.  Will the culprit own up?  Who subscribed
    Sudhakar> linux-india@xxxxxxxxx to the bugtraq mailing list?
    Sudhakar> Please take the steps to unsubscribe the mailing list.

You're joking, right?

I cull Linux-related messages from Bugtraq and send them to LI and
Linux-Delhi.  I bounce them, so it appears to have come from the
original sender.  No one subscribed anything to anything (except maybe 
the we-don't-want-a-person-who-uses-toilet-paper-for-PM lobby :)

    Sudhakar> If some of the LI subscribers are interested in any of
    Sudhakar> these lists, they will take the individual initiative to
    Sudhakar> subscribe themselves to the lists they are interested
    Sudhakar> in.  After all, you don't see me subscribing the LI list
    Sudhakar> to some slightly related mailing list, do you?

If you feel that Linux-related security info is not relevant I'll stop 
posting it.

Regards,

- -- Raju

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