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Red Hat 6.2: RHSA-2000:061-02 Critical: Klogd Exploit Warning

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Calendar Grey September 18, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical Red Hat advisory highlights klogd vulnerabilities, allowing local root access. Recommend immediate updates.
Various vulnerabilities exist in syslogd/klogd

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 Linux 5.2:

sparc:

alpha:

i386:

sources:

Red Hat Linux 6.2:

sparc:

i386:

alpha:

sources:

7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name cd92613fc9a7409a90f6ff774e6e85d7 5.2/SRPMS/sysklogd-1.3.31-1.6.src.rpm c7c44b7a38f4518daecca77cf7d45ba8 5.2/alpha/sysklogd-1.3.31-1.6.alpha.rpm f100359030451c4be9b3bd99c3ec73a1 5.2/i386/sysklogd-1.3.31-1.6.i386.rpm 1c7f004ca29c966e0a03896f239d1317 5.2/sparc/sysklogd-1.3.31-1.6.sparc.rpm 69d50a8a9d490598fc11eef40fdf4552 6.2/SRPMS/sysklogd-1.3.31-17.src.rpm 2a7e2c7848d1f2d9607f3e6e3702cf2e 6.2/alpha/sysklogd-1.3.31-17.alpha.rpm 287d5022aa9d1a6ba9e03c51acc85229 6.2/i386/sysklogd-1.3.31-17.i386.rpm 150a05567dd4d626326028b1ac31f34d 6.2/sparc/sysklogd-1.3.31-17.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

References

Thanks go to Jouko Pynnonen, Solar Designer, and Daniel Jacobowitz for discovering the vulnerabilities and providing patches. Copyright(c) 2000 Red Hat, Inc. `

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:061-02
Issue date: 2000-09-18
Updated on: 2000-09-18
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: syslog format string klogd syslogd
Cross references: N/A

Topic

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

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