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Red Hat 6.x RHSA-2000:053-01 Critical Usermode Command Escalation

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Calendar Grey August 12, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Oracle has issued a swift notice regarding a severe flaw in their database system, mandating the disabling of certain admin commands to mitigate potential data breach threats.
Console users can obtain root privileges

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):

13768 - Auth dialogs show "Picture of a key" text instead of graphic 13616 - Missing icon. 12433 - /usr/sbin/userhelper not stripped 11006 - kppp either doesn't display locally or remotely 9746 - Local user can go into single mode only with shutdown now...


6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 6.0, 6.1, 6.2:

sparc:

alpha:

i386:

sources:

7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name 24f2766589d1a16ebcda912067173396 6.2/SRPMS/usermode-1.28-2.src.rpm 94423f4138477d9d47a055ed3c4b3648 6.2/alpha/usermode-1.28-2.alpha.rpm b8f16bb02c4355a86183e268bd57ac74 6.2/i386/usermode-1.28-2.i386.rpm e1c2b7626a905f64b03f48127e742259 6.2/sparc/usermode-1.28-2.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. `

Package List


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:053-01
Issue date: 2000-08-11
Updated on: 2000-08-11
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: usermode shutdown
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 6.2E - i386, alpha, sparc

Bugs Fixed

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