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SuSE: 1999: Security Advisory For Pbpg Critical Access Risk

The /usr/bin/pg and /usr/bin/pb tools can be used to read any file on the system. . ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE Security Announcement Package: pbpg-1.x Date: Tue Sep 21 00:35:49 MEST 1999 Affected: all Linux distributions using pbpg _____________________________________________________________________________ A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above. Please update 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 that we provide this information on as "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. _____________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem Description The /usr/bin/pg and /usr/bin/pb tools can be used to read any file on the system. 2. Impact An attacker can read e.g the /etc/shadow file or private email. 3. Solution Updated the pbgp package from our FTP server. ______________________________________________________________________________ Here are the md5 checksums of the upgrade packages, please verify these before installing the new packages: a3591927cdb148abdc32b677fa5caa33 pbpg-1.2-0.i386.rpm ______________________________________________________________________________ You will find the update on our ftp-Server: Webpage for patches: https://www.suse.com/de-de/ or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors: https://www.suse.com/de-de/ ______________________________________________________________________________ . ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE Security Announc. /usr/bin/pg,/usr/bin/pb, tools, system, __________________. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Dec 08, 1999 •Critical SuSE