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Red Hat 6.2 RHSA-2000:055-03 Moderate: XChat Shell Command Threat

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Calendar Grey August 23, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Security Notice: Vulnerability in XChat permits malicious links to execute shell commands, posing a significant threat of attacks.
XChat can pass URLs from IRC to a shell

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):

N/A

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 6.2:

sparc:

alpha:

i386:

sources:

7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name 0642e627980c723b64a865662b27c638 6.2/SRPMS/xchat-1.4.0-2.src.rpm 79491287b1b683bd882f5ddcf0429018 6.2/alpha/xchat-1.4.0-2.alpha.rpm 285f31993a4084659c38b13d3f8f9c41 6.2/i386/xchat-1.4.0-2.i386.rpm 5878e8cd14c2aacb59ea3d05e379ca67 6.2/sparc/xchat-1.4.0-2.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

Reported to BUGTRAQ by Zenith Parsec. Copyright(c) 2000 Red Hat, Inc. `

Package List


Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:055-03
Issue date: 2000-08-22
Updated on: 2000-08-23
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: XChat IRC shell
Cross references: N/A

Topic

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Linux 6.2 - i386, alpha, sparc

Bugs Fixed

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