Re: Question about SunRPC/Glibc XDR decoder vulnerability

• To: Anne Wilson <anne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Question about SunRPC/Glibc XDR decoder vulnerability
• From: Gilbert Sebenste <sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:27:42 -0500 (CDT)

Hello Anne,

> Hi Gilbert,
> 
> The LDM uses these libraries dynamically, i.e., they are used when they
> are needed and they are not compiled into the code like a static library
> would be.  So you don't need to recompile the LDM, but you do need to
> restart it so it will use the new libraries.   However, if you have
> other applications that use the libraries statically they would need to
> be recompiled.  A reboot is not necessary.

Thanks for letting me know! I just applied all the patches to my machines 
and restarted the LDMs.

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  • Re: Question about SunRPC/Glibc XDR decoder vulnerability
    • From: Anne Wilson