SUSE 6.1, 6.3 Advisory make-3.77-44 Critical Local Root Risk

Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:15:49 +0100
From: Thomas Biege 
Reply-To: slug-security@ox.slug.louisville.edu
To: BUGTRAQ@

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 SuSE Security Announcement

 Package: make-3.77-44 and earlier
 Date: Wed Feb 9 17:28:43 CET 2000

 Affected SuSE versions: 6.1, 6.3
 Vulnerability Type: locale root compromise
 SuSE default package: no
 Other affected systems: all linux systems using make
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A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above.
Please update it as soon as possible or disable the service if you are using
this software on your SuSE Linux installation(s).

Other Linux distributions or operating systems might be affected as
well, please contact your vendor for information about this issue.

Please note that we provide this information on an "as-is" basis only.
There is no warranty whatsoever and no liability for any direct, indirect or
incidental damage arising from this information or the installation of
the update package.
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1. Problem Description

 If GNU make is fed with Makefiles via stdin it creates temporary files
 in /tmp without checking for links.

2. Impact

 A malicous user could execute commands with the privileges of the user
 executing make.
 This security hole could lead to local root compromise if root passes
 Makefiles to make through stdin.

3. Solution

 Update the package from our FTP server.
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Please verify these md5 checksums of the updates before installing:
(For SuSE 6.0, please use the 6.1 updates)

e387c78a7046a05d3948c85519904dc6 fb82691700e3238ed938b41f2933a1f0 /6.3/d1/make-3.78.1-5.alpha.rpm
54e6b458a2e7ba096ad3b0743fef7073 099cdc6529b36e085b239af1c0337faf e5eee118d92e61d4b17b3bef112760af ______________________________________________________________________________

You can find updates on our ftp-Server:

 for Intel processors for Alpha processors
or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors:
 https://www.suse.com/de-de/

Our webpage for patches:
 https://www.suse.com/de-de/

Our webpage for security announcements:
 https://www.suse.com/de-de/

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact
 security@suse.de
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 2048/3D25D3D9 1999/03/06 SuSE Security Team 

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