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Red Hat Linux 5/6 RHSA-2000:048-06 Critical: Mailx Local Access Exploit

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Calendar Grey August 21, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Latest enhancements to mailx and perl software tackle local privilege elevation issues originating from suidperl defects. Get the necessary updates today!
Updated perl and mailx package are now available which fix a potentialexploit made possible by incorrect assumptions made in suidperl.

Solution

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filename]

where filename is the name of the RPM.

In order to install some of these packages, you may need to have a newer version of RPM installed. Information about obtaining the new version of RPM is included in RHSA-2000:051.

5. Bug IDs fixed ( for more info):

15625 - Root exploit alread posted on bugtraq 15630 - Root exploit in sperl 15641 - suidperl has a major problem


6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 5.0:

Red Hat Linux 5.2:

sparc:



alpha:



i386:



sources:



Red Hat Linux 6.2:

sparc:



i386:



alpha:



sources:



7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name c514911db4ce13fc32af5b59233d5dc9 5.2/SRPMS/mailx-8.1.1-16.src.rpm 7440313c13c65142c75e35d32b5807c3 5.2/SRPMS/perl-5.004m7-2.src.rpm 430fca595dd42648239b8ad475032c9c 5.2/alpha/mailx-8.1.1-16.alpha.rpm 876b94f7d4fd4d92142f44de51045591 5.2/alpha/perl-5.004m7-2.alpha.rpm fd9d44b8aeadc36bd871dd8e2d6211c4 5.2/i386/mailx-8.1.1-16.i386.rpm 0a1f47cacb891c03b351211d4fe825ed 5.2/i386/perl-5.004m7-2.i386.rpm 376f28398c607b4af12d06babbd7e098 5.2/sparc/mailx-8.1.1-16.sparc.rpm 24e61c42e5a22dbbc929264a1ddc3869 5.2/sparc/perl-5.004m7-2.sparc.rpm 30d2f82abfba4ac2c770b66c591d528f 6.2/SRPMS/mailx-8.1.1-16.src.rpm 5cfe855e78b1ed7672e4daa738093f2c 6.2/SRPMS/perl-5.00503-11.src.rpm 25497e13b1d30f3dcff365602f78208a 6.2/alpha/mailx-8.1.1-16.alpha.rpm 452714b1ddfd479cb683b21ca54d27a3 6.2/alpha/perl-5.00503-11.alpha.rpm c121c2076bae78f42afcf9f0357549b9 6.2/i386/mailx-8.1.1-16.i386.rpm ff573609cbe0de0fe72838b0139992da 6.2/i386/perl-5.00503-11.i386.rpm 6464e30268ba05a2ca938b38805a9256 6.2/sparc/mailx-8.1.1-16.sparc.rpm fa63980aed3bdd2c9c14dcca6745c56c 6.2/sparc/perl-5.00503-11.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 Linux perl mailx local access exploit

References

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Package List


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:048-06
Issue date: 2000-08-07
Updated on: 2000-08-09
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: perl suidperl mailx rpm
Cross references: RHSA-2000:051

Topic

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Linux perl mailx local access exploit

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Linux 5.0 - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Linux 5.1 - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Linux 5.2 - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Linux 6.0 - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Linux 6.1 - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Linux 6.2 - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Linux 6.2E - i386, alpha, sparc

Bugs Fixed

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