1. Patch for Buffer Over Flow Vulnerability
- Vulnerability Type
: Buffer Over Flow
- Introduction to Patch
: Vulnerability Patch for BOF(Buffer Over Flow) via HTTP_COOKIE
- Necessity of Patch
: The vulnerability may be exploited for arbitrary user to obtain root privilege.
2. How to patch
1. Download vrpatch-vrfs-[language]-linuxx86-20050817.tar file from the download page.
2. root privilege needed for the patch.
(If you login as user, ' su - ' command is available for root privilege)
3. Decompress vrpatch-vrfs-[language]-linuxx86-20050817.tar file.
# tar xvf vrpatch-vrfs-[language]-linuxx86-20050817.tar
4. The following files are created if proprely decompressed.
# ls -al
vrpatch
vrpatch.dat
5. Execute './vrpatch' command without any given options.
# ./vrpatch
6. It takes a few minutes to complete the patch depending on system.
If you re-execute the file, the message that it has already patched will be displayed.
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