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Red Hat Powertools 6.1/6.2 RHSA-2000:016-03 Critical Imwheel Access Flaws

Access and process violations with imwheel package exist.. ` --------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory Synopsis: Multiple local imwheel vulnerabilities Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:016-03 Issue date: 2000-04-20 Updated on: 2000-07-03 Product: Red Hat Powertools Keywords: imwheel buffer imwheel-solo Cross references: N/A --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Topic: Multiple vulnerabilities exist in imwheel. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Powertools 6.1 - i386 alpha sparc Red Hat Powertools 6.2 - i386 alpha sparc 3. Problem description: Multiple local vulnerabilities exist in imwheel. * Read access violations where there is no checking of the file itself, it follows a symlink blindly. * Perl wrapper might allow other users on the machine to kill the imwheel process. 4. Solution: Because the core functionality of imwheel has been incorporated into many existing applications, removing imwheel will not incur a significant loss of functionality. If the machine which has imwheel installed is not a single user machine we recommend removing imwheel. To remove imwheel run this command: rpm -e imwheel 5. Bug IDs fixed ( for more info): N/A 6. RPMs required: N/A 7. Verification: MD5 sum Package Name -------------------------------------------------------------------------- N/A 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 8. References: N/A `. Red Hat security advisory outlines several local vulnerabilities in imwheel, detailing security risks and offering step-by-step guidance for users to address them. RedHat Powertools, Imwheel Security, Local Issues, Access Violations, Buffer Overflow. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Jul 04, 2000 •Critical Red Hat