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Red Hat Powertools RHSA-2000:122-06 Critical: Diskcheck Race Issue

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Calendar Grey December 5, 2000
Scroller Redhat
Improvements made to concurrency management in diskcheck have been established to maintain system integrity and prevent data loss.
A race vulnerability exists in the diskcheck package.

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):

11724 - tempfile has easily guessed name and follows symlinks 21901 - diskcheck sends empty email if filesystem where tmp file is created fills up


6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Powertools 6.2:

noarch:

sources:

Red Hat Powertools 7.0:

noarch:

sources:

7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name 33ec0067e449f3411982f3280d5b51a7 6.2/SRPMS/diskcheck-3.1.1-12.src.rpm ad5b2b48440b9ce431bd31b9d28bde92 6.2/noarch/diskcheck-3.1.1-12.noarch.rpm b7670bab7d16b9903735728c65c1a971 7.0/SRPMS/diskcheck-3.1.1-12.src.rpm e54d258f082219443106341074cecdbf 7.0/noarch/diskcheck-3.1.1-12.noarch.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

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue Red Hat Powertools diskcheck race condition system integrity file corruption

References

N/A Copyright(c) 2000 Red Hat, Inc. `

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:122-06
Issue date: 2000-12-01
Updated on: 2000-12-08
Product: Red Hat Powertools
Keywords: N/A
Cross references: N/A

Topic

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue Red Hat Powertools diskcheck race condition system integrity file corruption

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Powertools 6.0 - noarch

Red Hat Powertools 6.1 - noarch

Red Hat Powertools 6.2 - noarch

Red Hat Powertools 7.0 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

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