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Linux gpm Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
This was patched in RedHat's "Rawhide" release and a fixed version of gpm is available at:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/Linux/redhat-rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/gpm-1.19.2-1.i386.rpm

Updates for OpenLinux 2.3 and 2.4 are also available from Caldera.


Caldera OpenLinux 2.3

• Caldera gpm-1.17.8-5
  ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/updates/OpenLinux/2.3/current/RPMS/gp m-1.17.8-5.i386.rpm

SCO eServer 2.3

• Caldera eServer 2.3: gpm-1.17.8-5
  ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/updates/eServer/2.3/current/RPMS/gpm- 1.17.8-5.i386.rpm

Caldera OpenLinux 2.4

• Caldera gpm-1.19.2-4
  ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/updates/eDesktop/2.4/current/RPMS/gpm -1.19.2-4.i386.rpm