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Red Hat Powertools 6.1/6.2 RHSA-2000:016-03 Critical Imwheel Access Flaws

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Calendar Grey July 4, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat security advisory outlines several local vulnerabilities in imwheel, detailing security risks and offering step-by-step guidance for users to address them
Access and process violations with imwheel package exist.

Solution

Because the core functionality of imwheel has been incorporated into many existing applications, removing imwheel will not incur a significant loss of functionality.

If the machine which has imwheel installed is not a single user machine we recommend removing imwheel. To remove imwheel run this command:

rpm -e imwheel

5. Bug IDs fixed ( for more info):

N/A

6. RPMs required:

N/A

7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name N/A

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue Red Hat Powertools imwheel issue access violation

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:016-03
Issue date: 2000-04-20
Updated on: 2000-07-03
Product: Red Hat Powertools
Keywords: imwheel buffer imwheel-solo
Cross references: N/A

Topic

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue Red Hat Powertools imwheel issue access violation

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Powertools 6.1 - i386 alpha sparc

Red Hat Powertools 6.2 - i386 alpha sparc

Bugs Fixed

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