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Red Hat 6.2: RHSA-2000:072-07 Moderate: GnoRPM File Write Issue

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Calendar Grey October 11, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Just-published RPM updates resolve a security flaw that could be leveraged locally on Red Hat Linux editions 6.1, 6.2, and 7.0.
A locally-exploitable security hole was found where a normal user could trick root running GnoRPM into writing to arbitrary files due to a bug in the gnorpm tmp file handling.

Solution

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filename]

where filename is the name of the RPM.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to library compatibility issues, this release of GnoRPM 0.95.1 cannot be used on a Red Hat Linux 6.0 system. If you are running Red Hat Linux 6.0, to close this security hole you should abstain from using GnoRPM until packages are available for that release. Alternatively you may upgrade to a later version of Red Hat Linux. Packages that function properly on a Red Hat Linux 6.0 system are in development.

5. Bug IDs fixed ( for more info):

6611 - GNORPM crashes when changing filter in the install window 6657 - gnorpm crashes 6659 - need summary 7678 - Corrupted .gnome/gnorpm.d/resources/fullIndex.rdf.gz 9254 - GnoRPM dies behind firewall 10162 - "Query" button in toolbar doesn't work properly 14327 - Querying RPMs after drag'n'drop crashes gnorpm


6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 6.2:

alpha:

sparc:

i386:

sources:

Red Hat Linux 7.0:

i386:

sources:

7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name 799c51d7605003fd643c74b297e86ca3 6.2/SRPMS/gnorpm-0.95.1-5.6x.src.rpm 10a9215f32ec6c9bf9dd16066f7c619b 6.2/alpha/gnorpm-0.95.1-5.6x.alpha.rpm d1d5beddc2afb6851e80f5c6e3025cc5 6.2/i386/gnorpm-0.95.1-5.6x.i386.rpm 01bf6a5c3a8e407cfec885722db7704e 6.2/sparc/gnorpm-0.95.1-5.6x.sparc.rpm 9f89775c6aa1228c8f8cade83b7aab5f 7.0/SRPMS/gnorpm-0.95.1-5.src.rpm 0e3665d444a2bd0fa1b1569d8288d248 7.0/i386/gnorpm-0.95.1-5.i386.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

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

Package List


Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:072-07
Issue date: 2000-10-04
Updated on: 2000-11-01
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: security tmp rpm
Cross references: N/A

Topic

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Linux 6.1 - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Linux 6.2 - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Linux 6.2EE - i386

Red Hat Linux 7.0 - i386

Red Hat Linux 7.0J - i386

Bugs Fixed

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