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Red Hat Powertools advisory RHSA-2000:042-01 critical: BitchX DoS

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Calendar Grey July 6, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical security flaw found in BitchX threatens Red Hat Powertools; affected users must update immediately.
A denial of service vulnerability exists in BitchX.

Solution

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filename]

where filename is the name of the RPM.

5. Bug IDs fixed ( for more info):

N/A

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Powertools 6.1:

Red Hat Powertools 6.2:

sparc:


alpha:


i386:


sources:


7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name ea54ae7d29be2abeb4e0252ad2e5a040 6.2/SRPMS/BitchX-1.0c16-1.src.rpm 7c517589b963bbf9a42025cbd216fcdb 6.2/alpha/BitchX-1.0c16-1.alpha.rpm 93a409b68bdef05468a86bfdae2cb8d5 6.2/i386/BitchX-1.0c16-1.i386.rpm 2317c93fa3ed3a0ee0566ecd1c6d98ad 6.2/sparc/BitchX-1.0c16-1.sparc.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key is available at:


You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig

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

Summary

References

Thanks to Colten Edwards <edwards@bitchx.dimension6.com> for making us aware of the problem. `

Package List


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:042-01
Issue date: 2000-07-06
Updated on: 2000-07-06
Product: Red Hat Powertools
Keywords: DoS
Cross references: N/A

Topic

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Powertools 6.0 - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Powertools 6.1 - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Powertools 6.2 - i386, alpha, sparc

Bugs Fixed

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