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Red Hat Linux 6.2 RHSA-2000:059-02 Critical: Mgetty File Destruction

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Calendar Grey September 11, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Recent patches for mgetty have been launched to mitigate a critical security vulnerability in Red Hat Linux that allows for the unapproved removal of files.
The mgetty-sendfax package contains a vulnerability

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):

11874 - Mgetty packages default config is a security threat 17178 - one more security problem with mgetty 17179 - security problem with mgetty

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 5.2:

sparc:





alpha:





i386:





sources:


Red Hat Linux 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2:

sparc:





i386:





alpha:





sources:


7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name b27b3fda4c0d0e7ac7b74353c4f1f145 5.2/SRPMS/mgetty-1.1.22-1.5.x.src.rpm b652205f79715212bef4c98f0d624f6d 5.2/alpha/mgetty-1.1.22-1.5.x.alpha.rpm dcc1ae6fa8cf601c3418d0affbf91039 5.2/alpha/mgetty-sendfax-1.1.22-1.5.x.alpha.rpm fe85f4fe5367d619b160987e912b7e24 5.2/alpha/mgetty-viewfax-1.1.22-1.5.x.alpha.rpm c2d5a314915ade00c98ba3fe4ce5712b 5.2/alpha/mgetty-voice-1.1.22-1.5.x.alpha.rpm f2fb0d8bf7f3b2140a3e21170399bc7c 5.2/i386/mgetty-1.1.22-1.5.x.i386.rpm e3773830446a4fba7555d70732a2938d 5.2/i386/mgetty-sendfax-1.1.22-1.5.x.i386.rpm 245f0b0f00e1687401edd65db86cd7a9 5.2/i386/mgetty-viewfax-1.1.22-1.5.x.i386.rpm f49678f5fc10297473b9415f7148fe94 5.2/i386/mgetty-voice-1.1.22-1.5.x.i386.rpm 45ff2fa65ed3411734a58162880ca19f 5.2/sparc/mgetty-1.1.22-1.5.x.sparc.rpm 6b69116697c9636a9d3fc59f209d74ff 5.2/sparc/mgetty-sendfax-1.1.22-1.5.x.sparc.rpm 9db43716f48517d4bd6cf22253e975f1 5.2/sparc/mgetty-viewfax-1.1.22-1.5.x.sparc.rpm 1fabca053ad9a520d3065c00d31bb9d9 5.2/sparc/mgetty-voice-1.1.22-1.5.x.sparc.rpm 7b50848c4ef1d27d2c40e9f5e2c74f75 6.2/SRPMS/mgetty-1.1.22-1.6.x.src.rpm 47d1b922a94ffe984a19285f2296907c 6.2/alpha/mgetty-1.1.22-1.6.x.alpha.rpm 52c43e4d8195ee483459c0b273f064f4 6.2/alpha/mgetty-sendfax-1.1.22-1.6.x.alpha.rpm 3927d2ead5ef89b93f3799190af12535 6.2/alpha/mgetty-viewfax-1.1.22-1.6.x.alpha.rpm 4eb7013dee45011c6c7958be40e000fe 6.2/alpha/mgetty-voice-1.1.22-1.6.x.alpha.rpm bd6ee4b93aa742d6cbc92bbae031c345 6.2/i386/mgetty-1.1.22-1.6.x.i386.rpm 3539dc2f5c5bef8819a8bc781e0d3405 6.2/i386/mgetty-sendfax-1.1.22-1.6.x.i386.rpm 3a17e82b398d69c294952773a098c105 6.2/i386/mgetty-viewfax-1.1.22-1.6.x.i386.rpm e61f3413ce93cd30c41eeb29caef2177 6.2/i386/mgetty-voice-1.1.22-1.6.x.i386.rpm 03d15f11dafe000ad55c3290974ae670 6.2/sparc/mgetty-1.1.22-1.6.x.sparc.rpm 7ae49a988c81a450cabc7f2ca6d24a76 6.2/sparc/mgetty-sendfax-1.1.22-1.6.x.sparc.rpm b903bc9f9531ed015248e7e000f58884 6.2/sparc/mgetty-viewfax-1.1.22-1.6.x.sparc.rpm 985ee71161bb9bb1c73325115e0150f3 6.2/sparc/mgetty-voice-1.1.22-1.6.x.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 also go to Stan Bubrouski, Gert Doering, and mal@mail1.nai.net. Copyright(c) 2000 Red Hat, Inc. `

Package List


Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:059-02
Issue date: 2000-09-07
Updated on: 2000-09-11
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: N/A
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

Red Hat Linux 6.2E - i386, alpha, sparc

Bugs Fixed

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