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Red Hat Powertools 6.2 RHSA-2000:049-02 High: ntop Remote Access

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Calendar Grey August 8, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Serious security vulnerability uncovered in ntop for Red Hat Powertools 6.2. Urgent advisory actions are advised.
The version of ntop which was included in Red Hat Powertools 6.2 has aremote exploit in which arbitrary files can be read on the host machine.

Solution

For the Alpha architecture please remove ntop by running:

rpm -e ntop

For Sparc and i386 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:

i386:

sources:

7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name 8620607a310e28385cfc4961b3c909a9 6.2/SRPMS/ntop-1.3.1-1.src.rpm 188636458d73d66ea6e7d61aec64fc5b 6.2/i386/ntop-1.3.1-1.i386.rpm e6415fc286119023f321ce7e5bdbfce9 6.2/sparc/ntop-1.3.1-1.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 remote access high red hat powertools ntop exploit

References

N/A Copyright(c) 2000 Red Hat, Inc. `

Package List


Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:049-02
Issue date: 2000-08-07
Updated on: 2000-08-08
Product: Red Hat Powertools
Keywords: N/A
Cross references: N/A

Topic

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory remote access high red hat powertools ntop exploit

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Powertools 6.2 - i386, alpha, sparc

Bugs Fixed

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