Red Hat Linux 8.0 RHSA-2003:056-08 Critical: Setuid Issue in uml_net

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filenames]

Note that this update is also available via Red Hat Network. Many people find this to be an easier way to apply updates. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system. Note that you must select kernel-utils explicitly on default configurations of up2date.

5. Bug IDs fixed ( for more info):

83685 - uml_net executable allows users to do bad things

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 8.0:

SRPMS:

i386:

7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name 6eac85b6523b2931db7d039b37b6a2e8 8.0/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-utils-2.4-8.28.src.rpm 40a718a6037b55941a289fa6adc5f0f5 8.0/en/os/i386/kernel-utils-2.4-8.28.i386.rpm

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You can verify each package with the following command:

rpm --checksig -v

If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command:

md5sum