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Red Hat Linux: RHSA-2003:047-01 Critical: Local Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey June 3, 2003
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Recent kon2 enhancements address buffer overflow threats, facilitating safeguards against local privilege escalation, as detailed in the Red Hat Security Bulletin.
A buffer overflow in kon2 allows local users to obtain root privileges.

Solution

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.

5. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 7.1:

SRPMS:


i386:



Red Hat Linux 7.2:

SRPMS:


i386:



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 0289e31f63320d2f84c2beaf9cf6ef49 7.1/en/os/SRPMS/kon2-0.3.9b-14.7.1.1.src.rpm d77165936d298ce7c969937c0e9fbca5 7.1/en/os/i386/kon2-0.3.9b-14.7.1.1.i386.rpm 78bc900bfc78592edd2b14ace6a732b4 7.1/en/os/i386/kon2-fonts-0.3.9b-14.7.1.1.i386.rpm 9eede3a219a6b919417a00fa98555fbc 7.2/en/os/SRPMS/kon2-0.3.9b-14.7.2.1.src.rpm 8b47054bffc8e0b64173754d76a64e3c 7.2/en/os/i386/kon2-0.3.9b-14.7.2.1.i386.rpm fde443c9a5a521dadaae7db8aff7bb55 7.2/en/os/i386/kon2-fonts-0.3.9b-14.7.2.1.i386.rpm 866928fea6409886d0c5444391e1eb78 7.3/en/os/SRPMS/kon2-0.3.9b-14.7.3.1.src.rpm abf520070c1ddb5d8666749f8e340bb1 7.3/en/os/i386/kon2-0.3.9b-14.7.3.1.i386.rpm 0d845ebf3fe6890a1d52ebbca4020577 7.3/en/os/i386/kon2-fonts-0.3.9b-14.7.3.1.i386.rpm d8688dc3390b24ae661f8cfcdb1c4ac5 8.0/en/os/SRPMS/kon2-0.3.9b-14.8.src.rpm 2a9f14de40cf20211d1ad0e2c967ab72 8.0/en/os/i386/kon2-0.3.9b-14.8.i386.rpm 76e3cc966a14e12cd795fb3e8644dd06 8.0/en/os/i386/kon2-fonts-0.3.9b-14.8.i386.rpm d712bb617fb11499a3fa37a6fe4eb2c9 9/en/os/SRPMS/kon2-0.3.9b-16.9.src.rpm 3f1a3c5e5c5e310253f2c5c813de95e6 9/en/os/i386/kon2-0.3.9b-16.9.i386.rpm 8b42e5e38cd403db18ed41f507211080 9/en/os/i386/kon2-fonts-0.3.9b-16.9.i386.rpm


These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key is available at All Red Hat products

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


Summary

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2003:047-01
Issue date: 2003-06-03
Updated on: 2003-06-03
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: flaw:buf
Cross references:
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Topic

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Linux 7.1 - i386

Red Hat Linux 7.2 - i386

Red Hat Linux 7.3 - i386

Red Hat Linux 8.0 - i386

Red Hat Linux 9 - i386

Bugs Fixed

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