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Red Hat: RHSA-2000:078-02 Moderate: Traceroute Root Exploit Fix

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Calendar Grey October 6, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has issued an alert on a significant security vulnerability in the traceroute utility due to multiple -g flags, posing a denial-of-service risk. A fix is available.
A root exploit and several additional bugs in traceroute have beencorrected.

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):

18466 - traceroute: local root exploit now exists 13466 - segfault while parsing multiple -g arguments 15917 - Maksimum packetlength checked badly (Local DoS) 16281 - traceroute LSRR broken


6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 5.x:

alpha:


sparc:


i386:


sources:


Red Hat Linux 6.x:

alpha:


sparc:


i386:


sources:


7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name 1fe1fb918271526d5d4e22046f1da776 5.2/SRPMS/traceroute-1.4a5-24.5x.src.rpm 25a92211082e65df9f89fd71ac7a6888 5.2/alpha/traceroute-1.4a5-24.5x.alpha.rpm 2fc1c66152f3fbd723b695472aadc0a6 5.2/i386/traceroute-1.4a5-24.5x.i386.rpm d60c337c3fa3d23ba2c1cde082c8fee5 5.2/sparc/traceroute-1.4a5-24.5x.sparc.rpm 9fc2151d7cca01185add0ed085efcde0 6.2/SRPMS/traceroute-1.4a5-24.6x.src.rpm f279d9e415a7d806daae86e8112fe8c6 6.2/alpha/traceroute-1.4a5-24.6x.alpha.rpm 49bd824f9f4784ce9c45fa54285c7aa0 6.2/i386/traceroute-1.4a5-24.6x.i386.rpm 498a1e08221e1d9e0115edb7f34ecef9 6.2/sparc/traceroute-1.4a5-24.6x.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 moderate denial of service Red Hat bug fix traceroute exploit

References

Thanks to Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> for discovering the flaw. See for a complete summary of the flaw. Copyright(c) 2000 Red Hat, Inc. `

Package List


Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:078-02
Issue date: 2000-10-06
Updated on: 2000-10-06
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: traceroute setuid root exploit
Cross references: N/A

Topic

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service Red Hat bug fix traceroute 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

Bugs Fixed

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