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Red Hat Linux 6.x and 7 RHSA-2000:075-05 Critical Format Exploit

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Calendar Grey October 9, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Upgraded usermode utilities for Fedora Linux reduce threats related to buffer overflow weaknesses. Ensure that your servers are effectively secured.
Updated usermode packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 6.x and 7.

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):

18046 - Another security hole in usermode/glibc


6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 6.0 and 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 6.2/SRPMS/SysVinit-2.78-5.src.rpm c96aaae0df6782bb09bd65fb1d6dc69b 6.2/SRPMS/usermode-1.36-2.6.x.src.rpm 546bf7949c5be73b9f28b1819bfbd7c6 6.2/alpha/SysVinit-2.78-5.alpha.rpm afb4ad3a5715c0df6596a19db4d2b3c8 6.2/alpha/usermode-1.36-2.6.x.alpha.rpm ca5b97a1abb47b64d71ef69ab96fcb8a 6.2/i386/SysVinit-2.78-5.i386.rpm c2bac5d41ee077d2db48ed9462802ff0 6.2/i386/usermode-1.36-2.6.x.i386.rpm 4dfeacb8db12af4b2666f2792e1027c1 6.2/sparc/SysVinit-2.78-5.sparc.rpm 8567bb088fb7cab3e298d0df24f8c626 6.2/sparc/usermode-1.36-2.6.x.sparc.rpm 5ac6cca0a146d917e0ec3f6f1e046fa8 7.0/SRPMS/usermode-1.36-3.src.rpm 5d40e125fa0a31f05b8dac9321a1fa88 7.0/i386/usermode-1.36-3.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

Summary

References

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

Package List


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:075-05
Issue date: 2000-10-05
Updated on: 2000-10-09
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: usermode format-string
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

Red Hat Linux 6.2EE - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Linux 7.0 - i386

Red Hat Linux 7.0J - i386

Bugs Fixed

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