Red Hat Linux 6.x-7.0 RHSA-2000:075-07 Critical: Usermode Exploit

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):

18046 - Another security hole in usermode/glibc 19034 - shutdown wrapper references non-existent /usr/sbin/shutdown 20160 - shutdown script contains call to /usr/sbin/shutdown, which doesn't exist 20027 - /usr/sbin/userhelper dies in segmentation fault

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 6.0:

sparc:

i386:

alpha:

sources:

Red Hat Linux 6.1:

alpha:

sparc:

i386:

sources:

Red Hat Linux 6.2:

alpha:

sparc:

i386:

sources:

Red Hat Linux 7.0:

i386:

sources:

7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name 3310677ae7403c683e7947cd86b19344 6.0/SRPMS/SysVinit-2.78-5.src.rpm e299c4b17b7eafdf66acf1fb21491d9b 6.0/SRPMS/usermode-1.37-1.6.src.rpm 546bf7949c5be73b9f28b1819bfbd7c6 6.0/alpha/SysVinit-2.78-5.alpha.rpm 978af994a09fcbc4bf1cb2fa2723bfe7 6.0/alpha/usermode-1.37-1.6.alpha.rpm ca5b97a1abb47b64d71ef69ab96fcb8a 6.0/i386/SysVinit-2.78-5.i386.rpm e8fe2db6f95348a93a373673b1c87443 6.0/i386/usermode-1.37-1.6.i386.rpm 4dfeacb8db12af4b2666f2792e1027c1 6.0/sparc/SysVinit-2.78-5.sparc.rpm ba94a59a3a8195346735f202f28af3f8 6.0/sparc/usermode-1.37-1.6.sparc.rpm 3310677ae7403c683e7947cd86b19344 6.1/SRPMS/SysVinit-2.78-5.src.rpm e299c4b17b7eafdf66acf1fb21491d9b 6.1/SRPMS/usermode-1.37-1.6.src.rpm 546bf7949c5be73b9f28b1819bfbd7c6 6.1/alpha/SysVinit-2.78-5.alpha.rpm 978af994a09fcbc4bf1cb2fa2723bfe7 6.1/alpha/usermode-1.37-1.6.alpha.rpm ca5b97a1abb47b64d71ef69ab96fcb8a 6.1/i386/SysVinit-2.78-5.i386.rpm e8fe2db6f95348a93a373673b1c87443 6.1/i386/usermode-1.37-1.6.i386.rpm 4dfeacb8db12af4b2666f2792e1027c1 6.1/sparc/SysVinit-2.78-5.sparc.rpm ba94a59a3a8195346735f202f28af3f8 6.1/sparc/usermode-1.37-1.6.sparc.rpm 3310677ae7403c683e7947cd86b19344 6.2/SRPMS/SysVinit-2.78-5.src.rpm e299c4b17b7eafdf66acf1fb21491d9b 6.2/SRPMS/usermode-1.37-1.6.src.rpm 546bf7949c5be73b9f28b1819bfbd7c6 6.2/alpha/SysVinit-2.78-5.alpha.rpm 978af994a09fcbc4bf1cb2fa2723bfe7 6.2/alpha/usermode-1.37-1.6.alpha.rpm ca5b97a1abb47b64d71ef69ab96fcb8a 6.2/i386/SysVinit-2.78-5.i386.rpm e8fe2db6f95348a93a373673b1c87443 6.2/i386/usermode-1.37-1.6.i386.rpm 4dfeacb8db12af4b2666f2792e1027c1 6.2/sparc/SysVinit-2.78-5.sparc.rpm ba94a59a3a8195346735f202f28af3f8 6.2/sparc/usermode-1.37-1.6.sparc.rpm ede9b759a01552a261c67ebf0238794a 7.0/SRPMS/usermode-1.37-2.src.rpm c32888b6f362b04f8a3805d4465c042a 7.0/i386/usermode-1.37-2.i386.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