Red Hat Linux RHSA-2003:398-01 Critical Risk: Rsync Heap Overflow Threat

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filenames]

where [filenames] is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade. Only those RPMs which are currently installed will be updated. Those RPMs which are not installed but included in the list will not be updated. Note that you can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if your current directory *only* contains the desired RPMs.

Please note that this update is also available via Red Hat Network. Many people find this an easier way to apply updates. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.

If up2date fails to connect to Red Hat Network due to SSL Certificate Errors, you need to install a version of the up2date client with an updated certificate. The latest version of up2date is available from the Red Hat FTP site and may also be downloaded directly from the RHN website:

5. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 7.1:

SRPMS:

i386:

Red Hat Linux 7.2:

SRPMS:

i386:

ia64:

Red Hat Linux 7.3:

SRPMS:

i386:

Red Hat Linux 8.0:

SRPMS:

i386:

Red Hat Linux 9:

SRPMS:

i386:

6. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name e1981db86eac2625edbd24cd41120810 7.1/en/os/SRPMS/rsync-2.5.7-0.7.src.rpm 19c87db1c5794f30e60ee5927d959e87 7.1/en/os/i386/rsync-2.5.7-0.7.i386.rpm e1981db86eac2625edbd24cd41120810 7.2/en/os/SRPMS/rsync-2.5.7-0.7.src.rpm 19c87db1c5794f30e60ee5927d959e87 7.2/en/os/i386/rsync-2.5.7-0.7.i386.rpm 0cc8dbd351e0e5369eb6de006d20271c 7.2/en/os/ia64/rsync-2.5.7-0.7.ia64.rpm e1981db86eac2625edbd24cd41120810 7.3/en/os/SRPMS/rsync-2.5.7-0.7.src.rpm 19c87db1c5794f30e60ee5927d959e87 7.3/en/os/i386/rsync-2.5.7-0.7.i386.rpm a2f512f5b2859f811a0380a6390c4337 8.0/en/os/SRPMS/rsync-2.5.7-0.8.src.rpm cbcb9807c753ada532ee56930b82a17f 8.0/en/os/i386/rsync-2.5.7-0.8.i386.rpm fe8e0bb67b3870b9773ced0e61b70621 9/en/os/SRPMS/rsync-2.5.7-0.9.src.rpm cc8b37db1518aa08b20b0ede31146a2e 9/en/os/i386/rsync-2.5.7-0.9.i386.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key is available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key

You can verify each package with the following command:

rpm --checksig -v

If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command:

md5sum