Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 640
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 640

Red Hat Powertools 6.x RHSA-2000:050-01 Critical VPN Buffer Overflow Issue

red hat
Calendar Grey August 9, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Investigate critical details regarding the mopd-linux memory overflow vulnerability identified within Red Hat Power Tools.
A buffer overflow has been discovered in all releases of mopd-linuxincluded in the 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2 releases of Powertools.

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 6.2:

sparc:


alpha:


i386:


sources:


7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name 10f887fdc317e26bf94259a9c05d6212 6.2/SRPMS/mopd-linux-2.5.3-15.src.rpm 2f6bc5399f035de67197ad2d3eb96c03 6.2/alpha/mopd-linux-2.5.3-15.alpha.rpm e26174dae148d37dbfc78c306cd6daa5 6.2/i386/mopd-linux-2.5.3-15.i386.rpm 8f54499ea64372f17a5707d4615edddc 6.2/sparc/mopd-linux-2.5.3-15.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

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Powertools security issue buffer overflow critical threat mopd-linux

References

OpenBSD: Security Thanks to Matt Power <mhpower@MIT.EDU> for making us aware of this vulnerability. Copyright(c) 2000 Red Hat, Inc. `

Package List


Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:050-01
Issue date: 2000-08-08
Updated on: 2000-08-08
Product: Red Hat Powertools
Keywords: N/A
Cross references: N/A

Topic

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Powertools security issue buffer overflow critical threat mopd-linux

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

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Your message here