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Debian Linux: DSA-2021:112-01 Important: Bash Security Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey July 4, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An advisory highlights a vulnerability in the makewhatis utility threatening Red Hat environments. Evaluate local exploit risks.
The makewhatis portion of the man package used files in /tmp in an insecure fashion.

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 Linux 5.2:

i386:

alpha:

sparc:

sources:

Red Hat Linux 6.2:

alpha:

i386:

sparc:

sources:

7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name b3476eb017b133ad4094ab961a93451d 5.2/SRPMS/man-1.5h1-2.5.x.src.rpm 835945f5b6a55072beb7ed38af02ad97 5.2/alpha/man-1.5h1-2.5.x.alpha.rpm ee5f1fcc982be266294bbfd7f50fac53 5.2/i386/man-1.5h1-2.5.x.i386.rpm ebcdad7749c958e9df00b0c261791b25 5.2/sparc/man-1.5h1-2.5.x.sparc.rpm 14a92fdbfea1867c771d929a078dfece 6.2/SRPMS/man-1.5h1-2.6.x.src.rpm 15cc526b17fc2b10e7cbadfe1c1c7e72 6.2/alpha/man-1.5h1-2.6.x.alpha.rpm 32bed2085c2947237185e3e973f1a2ff 6.2/i386/man-1.5h1-2.6.x.i386.rpm 0b330b0cea1e7ac1af83010cf896a2d4 6.2/sparc/man-1.5h1-2.6.x.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

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Package List


Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:041-02
Issue date: 2000-07-03
Updated on: 2000-07-03
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: man /tmp makewhatis
Cross references: N/A

Topic

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Linux 5.2 - i386 alpha sparc

Red Hat Linux 6.0 - alpha i386 sparc

Red Hat Linux 6.1 - i386 alpha sparc

Red Hat Linux 6.2 - alpha i386 sparc

Bugs Fixed

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