[Full-Disclosure] 1 year to fix a critical vuln [WAS: Heap Overflow in Oracle 9iAS .....]

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Thu Apr 8 17:57:03 BST 2004


On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 16:18:12 -0000, Hugh Mann <hughmann at hotmail.com>  said:

> Which company will be first to wait 2 years to fix a vuln?

Already happened.

> Subject:              UnixWare 7.1.2 Open UNIX 8.0.0 UnixWare 7.1.1 UnixWare 
7.1.2 : exploitable buffer overrun in metamail
> Advisory number:      CSSA-2003-SCO.15
> Issue date:           2003 August 15

As far as I can tell, these are the same holes that Alan Cox fixed
in the RedHat distrib version of metamail in June 1998.
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