Package | lpr | |
Synopsis | New lpr packages available | |
Advisory ID | RHSA-2000:002-01 | |
Issue Date | 2000-01-07 | |
Updated on | 2000-01-07 | |
Keywords | lpr lpd DNS sendmail | |
1. Topic:
2. Problem description: First, authentication was not thorough enough. If a remote user was able to control their own DNS so that their IP address resolved to the hostname of the print server, access would be granted, when it should not be. Secondly, it was possible in the control file of a print job to specify arguments to sendmail. By careful manipulation of control and data files, this could cause sendmail to be executed with a user-specified configuration file. This could lead very easily to a root compromise. It is recommended that all users of Red Hat Linux using the lpr package (which is required to print) upgrade to the fixed packages. Thanks go to DilDog ([email protected]) for noting the vulnerability. If you are experiencing problems with local printing in Red Hat Linux 6.1, make sure that you have: alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc in your /etc/conf.modules file.
3. Bug IDs fixed: (see bugzilla for more information)
4. Relevant releases/architectures:
5. Obsoleted by:
6. Conflicts with:
7. RPMs required: Intel: ftp://updates.Red Hat.com/6.1/i386/
lpr-0.48-1.i386.rpm Alpha: ftp://updates.Red Hat.com/6.1/alpha
lpr-0.48-1.alpha.rpm SPARC: ftp://updates.Red Hat.com/6.1/sparc
lpr-0.48-1.sparc.rpm Source: ftp://updates.Red Hat.com/6.1/SRPMS
lpr-0.48-1.src.rpm
8. Solution: rpm -Uvh filename where filename is the name of the RPM.
Then, restart lpd:
9. Verification: MD5 sum Package Name ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 78f2220331189e723eab944b53d0710e i386/lpr-0.48-1.i386.rpm 3fcb89eb1a76741a505d3eeeddfa3674 alpha/lpr-0.48-1.alpha.rpm 441cfee04428ca215d98d9ce3d20bc4d sparc/lpr-0.48-1.sparc.rpm 55c6a740b03569919ec08992257cad96 SRPMS/lpr-0.48-1.src.rpmThese packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key is available at: https://www.Red Hat.com/about/contact.html You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig filename 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 filename Note that you need RPM >= 3.0 to check GnuPG keys.
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