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                        SuSE Security Announcement

        Package:                ucdsnmp
        Announcement-ID:        SuSE-SA:2002:012
        Date:                   Monday, Apr 8th 2002 11:37 MEST
        Affected SuSE versions: 6.4, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
                                SuSE Linux Database Server
                                SuSE eMail Server III
                                SuSE Firewall
                                SuSE Linux Connectivity Server
                                SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7
        Vulnerability Type:     - remote root access
                                - remote denial-of-service
        Severity (1-10):        6
        SuSE default package:   no
        Other affected systems: all linux-like systems using ucdsnmp

    Content of this advisory:
        1) security vulnerability resolved: serveral bugs in ucdsnmp
           problem description, discussion, solution and upgrade information
        2) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds
        3) standard appendix (further information)

______________________________________________________________________________

1)  problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information

    The Secure Programming Group of the Oulu University, Sweden released
    a testing suite for SNMP implementations. Several bugs could be triggered
    in the ucd-snmpd code by using this testing suite. These bugs lead to
    remote denial-of-service attacks and may possibly exploited to break
    system security remotely.
    Additionally, the SuSE Security Team did a full audit of the ucd-snmpd
    code and we hope to avoid more problems caused by other bugs in the
    future.

    Generally SNMP access (UDP 161,162) and all UDP bouncing services like
    echo (UDP 7) should completely be blocked at your firewall.

    Please download the update package for your distribution and verify its
    integrity by the methods listed in section 3) of this announcement.
    Then, install the package using the command "rpm -Fhv file.rpm" to apply
    the update.

    After updateing the RPM package run "ldconfig" and "rcsnmpd restart"
    as root to make the new library effective and to start the new daemon.

    Please note! We made a version upgrade of ucdsnmp, so other
    programs that rely on the ucdsnmpd library may become broken.
    We are aware of the following dependencies:
      - ethereal
      - gxsnmp
      - mod_php4
      - snmp
      - tngfw
    New RPM packages for this programs will be released as soon as possible.

    The mod_php4 packages have been published and require the new ucdsnmp
    packages.



    i386 Intel Platform:

    SuSE-7.3
    1c2e1cb902a7bfd1235b72ab01ef8fb5
    source rpm:
    4690d8fdd02aeda1ecdfb823ee4e5c5b

    SuSE-7.2
    8d64235fb11291264a77df5dbcccc92d
    source rpm:
    64ea35f0f89fda979050e0276a9a1454

    SuSE-7.1
    89d6afe19dde9d69269ba59941db9ed8
    source rpm:
    226cd20a4f287c3ed518443070ba5a1b

    SuSE-7.0
    d83d0eacc2ee9aeb9d48106c5ccc5d86
    source rpm:
    7b39de0fa0632f845da6bc0868ae7a50

    SuSE-6.4
    0f07af8b74bff747d0a08158ebce13e0
    source rpm:
    adc89756a09334dcb4a392079b40bc63



    Sparc Platform:

    SuSE-7.3
    2bf9c52997928890eb39e74ebd279a96
    source rpm:
    ae8896d82ba79d65b7a9efdc681d61e2

    SuSE-7.1
    29b37eecda93c9c40eeafc7c6f2150b5
    source rpm:
    6510ed2805dc225dfe0f2576e082d518

    SuSE-7.0
    97ff495d2e5a25fbd403ac60d953fb67
    source rpm:
    2bf034b9ccfc8e18915c9ad043c3f031



    AXP Alpha Platform:

    SuSE-7.1
    1d1b6039a7ff00146395d9b47f79cd8a
    source rpm:
    b9e13edaae7adc6325088d562687ae12

    SuSE-7.0
    1f3e6df23a387747f025916e42d56e4d
    source rpm:
    d8b0005133f9a1129d1b5cd821999d20

    SuSE-6.4
    ee584501afdf1e3246d48ef0648e40f9
    source rpm:
    1ffda4dc5f0cd611de0c45305849b314



    PPC PowerPC Platform:

    SuSE-7.3
    43d3afe225546fac26d64b78439c2659
    source rpm:
    7859b62cc34b7bd6638beca85e6c72d6

    SuSE-7.1
    583bf560618c865daafb7219f230666d
    source rpm:
    528a0127706acd1586846d8c85dcee49

    SuSE-7.0
    8bcb36e2ad94472564ee94449590a362
    source rpm:
    e3f20e08881a22f73376cacf4f9a5606

    SuSE-6.4
    4a9e00c6e07230f156b4382e97028b29
    source rpm:
    5464ea7488c5fd9e8f0617833a296fbf

______________________________________________________________________________

2)  Pending vulnerabilities in SuSE Distributions and Workarounds:

    - inn
      update packages are available for the inn news server, as contained
      in all SuSE Linux products. The updates fix a problem where the
      inews program wouldn't properly check the moderator's email address
      that is supplied by the server. The user calling inews may gain
      elevated local privileges with this bug.
      In addition to the fix for this particular bug, minor directory
      permission adaptions have been made.
      We will not release an own security announcement for this bug.

   - gnokii for SuSE-7.2 and SuSE-7.3
     The gnokii package for the SuSE Linux distributions contain a
     vulnerability that allows write access to any file on the system,
     allowing a local attacker to gain root privileges. Update packages
     for the SuSE Linux Distributions 7.2 and 7.3 are avbailable on our ftp
     server that fix this problem.
     We will not release an own security announcement for this bug.

   - mod_php4 for SuSE Linux 7.2
     A packaging error caused the update packages for the mod_php4 package
     on SuSE Linux 7.2 to lack support for TTF, XML and IMAP. This has been
     corrected with new update packages on the ftp server.

   - fileutils
     A race condition while recursively removing directory structures from
     world-writeable directories cause the rm(1) command to be vulnerable
     to an attack that allows a local user to remove arbitrary directories
     (and files) from the system. The error has been corrected in the
     update packages that are available from the a1/ series update
     directrory of each distribution. Users of SuSE Linux Enterprise
     Server 7 based products receive their update packages through the
     SuSE maintenance web.
     We will not release an own security announcement for this bug.

   - nscd
     The name service cache daemon shipped with supported SuSE products
     (part of the glibc/shlibs package) is configured to run by default,
     but configured to not cache hosts entries (A- and PTR records from
     domain name servers). Therefore, a vulnerability that takes advantage
     of the fact that nscd uses an existing (cached) PTR record for
     resolving a request for an A-record is not applicable to SuSE
     products. The weakness will be fixed in future releases of SuSE products.


______________________________________________________________________________

3)  standard appendix: authenticity verification, additional information

  - Package authenticity verification:

    SuSE update packages are available on many mirror ftp servers all over
    the world. While this service is being considered valuable and important
    to the free and open source software community, many users wish to be
    sure about the origin of the package and its content before installing
    the package. There are two verification methods that can be used
    independently from each other to prove the authenticity of a downloaded
    file or rpm package:
    1) md5sums as provided in the (cryptographically signed) announcement.
    2) using the internal gpg signatures of the rpm package.

    1) execute the command
        md5sum 
after you downloaded the file from a SuSE ftp server or its mirrors.
       Then, compare the resulting md5sum with the one that is listed in the
       announcement. Since the announcement containing the checksums is
       cryptographically signed (usually using the key security@suse.de),
       the checksums show proof of the authenticity of the package.
       We disrecommend to subscribe to security lists which cause the
       email message containing the announcement to be modified so that
       the signature does not match after transport through the mailing
       list software.
       Downsides: You must be able to verify the authenticity of the
       announcement in the first place. If RPM packages are being rebuilt
       and a new version of a package is published on the ftp server, all
       md5 sums for the files are useless.

    2) rpm package signatures provide an easy way to verify the authenticity
       of an rpm package. Use the command
        rpm -v --checksig 
to verify the signature of the package, where  is the
       filename of the rpm package that you have downloaded. Of course,
       package authenticity verification can only target an uninstalled rpm
       package file.
       Prerequisites:
        a) gpg is installed
        b) The package is signed using a certain key. The public part of this
           key must be installed by the gpg program in the directory
           ~/.gnupg/ under the user's home directory who performs the
           signature verification (usually root). You can import the key
           that is used by SuSE in rpm packages for SuSE Linux by saving
           this announcement to a file ("announcement.txt") and
           running the command (do "su -" to be root):
            gpg --batch; gpg < announcement.txt | gpg --import
           SuSE Linux distributions version 7.1 and thereafter install the
           key "build@suse.de" upon installation or upgrade, provided that
           the package gpg is installed. The file containing the public key
           is placed at the toplevel directory of the first CD (pubring.gpg)
           and at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/pubring.gpg-build.suse.de .


  - SuSE runs two security mailing lists to which any interested party may
    subscribe:

    suse-security@suse.com
-   general/linux/SuSE security discussion.
            All SuSE security announcements are sent to this list.
            To subscribe, send an email to
                .

    suse-security-announce@suse.com
-   SuSE's announce-only mailing list.
            Only SuSE's security annoucements are sent to this list.
            To subscribe, send an email to
                .

    For general information or the frequently asked questions (faq)
    send mail to:
         or
         respectively.

    ====================================================================    SuSE's security contact is  or .
    The  public key is listed below.
    ====================================================================______________________________________________________________________________

    The information in this advisory may be distributed or reproduced,
    provided that the advisory is not modified in any way. In particular,
    it is desired that the cleartext signature shows proof of the
    authenticity of the text.
    SuSE Linux AG makes no warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect
    to the information contained in this security advisory.

Type Bits/KeyID    Date       User ID
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