SM wrote:
> At 01:11 05-09-2008, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
>   
>> But even a manual "yum update" finds nothing to update. I cannot
>> imagine Redhat/CentOS neglecting to provide a patch for that
>>     
>
> Why not? :-)
>
> The response was that "this issue can only result in a crash of the 
> bunzip2 process, which we do not consider to have any security impact."
>
>   
>> vulnerability, so I am probably doing something wrong. But what?
>>     
>
> You are not doing anything wrong.  Get a newer version of bzip2.
>
> Regards,
> -sm 
>
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More info can be found here:

http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-1372

https://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/joint-advisory-archive-formats.html

redhat didn't patch it. Their latest version appears to be from 2005 - 
per the date on the file.

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Roberto Ullfig - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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