New majordomo packages available

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              AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
                             
                      ESB-2000.018 -- RHSA-2000:005-03
                      New majordomo packages available
                               27 January 2000

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Red Hat, Inc. has released the following advisory concerning a
vulnerability in majordomo shipped with Red Hat Powertools 6.1 on all
architectures.  This vulnerability may allow local users to gain
privileged access.

This is the same vulnerability as described in the AusCERT Advisory
AA-2000.01 - Majordomo open() call Vulnerability.

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                   Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory

Synopsis:          New majordomo packages available
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2000:005-03
Issue date:        2000-01-20
Updated on:        2000-01-20
Product:           Red Hat Powertools
Keywords:          majordomo
Cross references:  N/A
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1. Topic:

New majordomo packages are available to fix a local security problem in majordomo.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Powertools 6.1 - i386 alpha sparc


3. Problem description:

A vulnerability in /usr/lib/majordomo/resend will allow execution of arbitrary commands with elevated privileges.

It is recommended that all users of Red Hat Linux using the majordomo package upgrade to the fixed package.

4. Solution:

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filename]

where filename is the name of the RPM.

5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla for more info):

N/A

6. Obsoleted by:

N/A

7. Conflicts with:

N/A

8. RPMs required:


Red Hat Powertools 6.1:

intel:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.1/i386/majordomo-1.94.5-2.i386.rpm

alpha:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.1/alpha/majordomo-1.94.5-2.alpha.rpm

sparc:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.1/sparc/majordomo-1.94.5-2.sparc.rpm

sources:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.1/SRPMS/majordomo-1.94.5-2.src.rpm


9. Verification:

MD5 sum                           Package Name
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89e327c6c92acc97db34e541f34c0c67  6.1/sparc/majordomo-1.94.5-2.sparc.rpm
8c829a13c2229060c899ffdc7e7db38c  6.1/alpha/majordomo-1.94.5-2.alpha.rpm
f0e22f364abcbe4c217f2b8eb180037d  6.1/i386/majordomo-1.94.5-2.i386.rpm
ad994a1742d90a593b8ecfbf52634cd7  6.1/SRPMS/majordomo-1.94.5-2.src.rpm


These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security.  Our key
is available at:
    http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html

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>

10. References:

Thanks to Brock Tellier at btellier@USA.NET for noting the vulnerability.

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