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Red Hat 6.1: RHSA-2000:001-03 Critical: Usermode Local Access Bug Fix

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Calendar Grey January 10, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat's advisory highlights critical updates on usermode vulnerabilities, particularly userhelper, urging prompt remediation actions

A security bug has been discovered and fixed in the userhelper program.

Solution

rpm -Uvh filename

where filename is the name of the RPM.

 

9. Verification:

 MD5 sum                           Package Name

93d5f7c1316d8b926d3a47d87b28b881  i386/usermode-1.18-1.i386.rpm
fed2c2ad4f95829e14727a9dfceaca07  alpha/pam-0.68-10.alpha.rpm
1a79bb403ad6d9de6bd205a901a7daee  alpha/usermode-1.18-1.alpha.rpm
350662253d09b17d0aca4e9c7a511675  sparc/pam-0.68-10.sparc.rpm
068a2d4e465e6c4a33dd1dbdd1a4fa02  sparc/usermode-1.18-1.sparc.rpm
f9ad800f56b7bb05ce595bad824a990d  SRPMS/pam-0.68-10.src.rpm
dfeca4a416f2d9417dcf739599f580fa  SRPMS/usermode-1.18-1.src.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key is available at:
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You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig filename

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 filename

Note that you need RPM >= 3.0 to check GnuPG keys.

Summary

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat critical bug fix local access root access usermode

References

 

 

 

Package List


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Topic

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat critical bug fix local access root access usermode

Relevant Releases Architectures

5. Obsoleted by:
None

6. Conflicts with:
None

7. RPMs required:

Intel:

pam-0.68-10.i386.rpm
usermode-1.18-1.i386.rpm

Alpha:

pam-0.68-10.alpha.rpm
usermode-1.18-1.alpha.rpm

SPARC:

pam-0.68-10.sparc.rpm
usermode-1.18-1.sparc.rpm

Source:

pam-0.68-10.src.rpm
usermode-1.18-1.src.rpm

 

Bugs Fixed

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