Re: broken flock() in linux 1.3.95 (fwd)

Mike Castle (mcastle@umr.edu)
Sun, 28 Apr 1996 11:48:35 -0500 (CDT)

Amazingly enough Justin Dossey said:
> I fixed all this by upgrading to libc 5.3.9, then downgrading to 5.2.18
> when I heard that there was a security hole in 5.3.9 (where can I find
> out more about this?). After moving the libc.so.5 and libm.so.5 links

The linux-gcc mailling list (http://homer.ncm.com keeps an
archive of said list, though there's been a lot of construction
going on there, so it may not always be accessible).

The latest release, 5.3.12 supposedly fixes the security hole.

mrc

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