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Red Hat Linux 6.x RHSA-2000:044-02 Critical: Remote Access Issue

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Calendar Grey July 22, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
PAM packages update mitigates critical remote access risk. Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:044-02 with remote console issue.
Workstations running a display manager may potentially allow remote users to access console devices.

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):

11165 - Gnome panel, ssh can allow remote non-root users to halt,reboot 12417 - man pages not installed properly in pam 12430 - /sbin/{pwdb,unix}_chkpwd not stripped


6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 6.2:

sparc:

alpha:

i386:

sources:

7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name 1e0f9bd6ac389b40c90daba918c419eb 6.2/SRPMS/pam-0.72-20.src.rpm 8834754c1b0fd31ac4fa8f3e54bb7444 6.2/alpha/pam-0.72-20.alpha.rpm b0376fbeb5fa31b1ac118b1831185959 6.2/i386/pam-0.72-20.i386.rpm be592c19f8742f9dca85d6ef19cbfb80 6.2/sparc/pam-0.72-20.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

N/A Copyright(c) 2000 Red Hat, Inc. `

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:044-02
Issue date: 2000-07-21
Updated on: 2000-07-21
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: N/A
Cross references: N/A

Topic

Relevant Releases Architectures

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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