Red Hat 6.0: RHSA-1999:023-01 Addressing Critical Gnumeric Vulnerability

Red Hat 6.0 RHSA-1999:023-01 Critical Gnumeric Software Issue

A potential security problem has been fixed in the gnumeric spreadsheet package.


Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory
Package	gnumeric

Synopsis	Potential security problem in gnumeric 0.23

Advisory ID	RHSA-1999:023-01

Issue Date	1999-07-23

Keywords	gnumeric security

1. Topic: A potential security problem has been fixed in the gnumeric spreadsheet package. 2. Bug IDs fixed: 3. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Linux 6.0, all architectures 4. Obsoleted by: None 5. Conflicts with: None 6. RPMs required: Intel: gnumeric- 0.27-1.i386.rpm Alpha: gnumeric-0.27-1.alpha.rpm SPARC: gnumeric-0.27-1.sparc.rpm Source: gnumeric- 0.27-1.src.rpm 7. Problem description: At the request of the gnumeric maintainer a new version is being released by Red Hat which addresses potential security issues with the version of gnumeric shipped in Red Hat Linux 6.0. 8. Solution: Upgrade to the latest version listed above. 9. Verification: MD5 sum Package Name ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 41d67505f1c53ce16ea66cec874deb87 gnumeric-0.27-1.i386.rpm 89451cf299e475197350ef0367edda63 gnumeric-0.27-1.alpha.rpm c35d7f9a29fd9421ef4d5b1ac44d6b8e gnumeric-0.27-1.sparc.rpm b28c5742c32c3d69b8e6713bb7c6f789 gnumeric-0.27-1.src.rpm These packages are also PGP 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 o tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nopgp 10. References: