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Red Hat Linux 6.1/6.2 RHSA-2000:024-02 Critical nss_ldap Race Condition

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Calendar Grey October 27, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Recent patches for nss_ldap on Red Hat Linux tackle a critical race condition that could result in significant system hangs.
A race condition has been found in the nss_ldap package

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):

11187 - nss_ldap-106 exposes shadow passwords when nscd active 19923 - nss_ldap has a bug that can deadlock a machine


6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 6.1:

alpha:

sparc:

i386:

sources:

Red Hat Linux 6.2:

alpha:

sparc:

i386:

sources:

Red Hat Linux 7.0:

i386:

sources:

7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name d6ccb0a79d788abc6b82be62981582dd 6.1/SRPMS/nss_ldap-122-1.6.src.rpm 08d8e980347fe7d81e29e1ca27e7cb09 6.1/alpha/nss_ldap-122-1.6.alpha.rpm 4d47831ae8516106392e74f5e1f2fd02 6.1/i386/nss_ldap-122-1.6.i386.rpm f12cc2e7f9ab1c5faed9c647bfcbab03 6.1/sparc/nss_ldap-122-1.6.sparc.rpm d6ccb0a79d788abc6b82be62981582dd 6.2/SRPMS/nss_ldap-122-1.6.src.rpm 08d8e980347fe7d81e29e1ca27e7cb09 6.2/alpha/nss_ldap-122-1.6.alpha.rpm 4d47831ae8516106392e74f5e1f2fd02 6.2/i386/nss_ldap-122-1.6.i386.rpm f12cc2e7f9ab1c5faed9c647bfcbab03 6.2/sparc/nss_ldap-122-1.6.sparc.rpm 7d3dedc08a5db1c30964389a8a3493ab 7.0/SRPMS/nss_ldap-122-1.7.src.rpm 95337178e79472118cf33b0584462679 7.0/i386/nss_ldap-122-1.7.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. `

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:024-02
Issue date: 2000-10-27
Updated on: 2000-10-27
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: N/A
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 7.0 - i386

Bugs Fixed

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