Linux Buffer Overflows and an old SSH Daemon
Source: O'Reilly Network
Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories. In this column, we look at a Linux Kernel problem that can be used to bypass quotas; buffer overflows in Solaris's ufsrestore and Oracle Trace Collection; and problems in SSH, RWhoisd, Red Hat's printing system, Linux's iptables, Red Hat Linux's mod_auth_pgsql, Java Runtime Environment, and the Oracle binary.