New majordomo packages available

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              AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
                             
                 ESB-2000.118 -- RHSA-2000:005-05 [revised]
                      New majordomo packages available
                                01 June 2000

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	AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:		majordomo
Vendor:			Red Hat
Operating System:	Linux
			Unix
Platform:		intel, sparc, alpha

Impact:			Execute Arbitrary Code
Access Required:	local

Ref:			ESB-2000.018
			AA-2000.01

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                   Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory

Synopsis:          New majordomo packages available
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2000:005-05
Issue date:        2000-01-20
Updated on:        2000-05-31
Product:           Red Hat Powertools
Keywords:          majordomo
Cross references:  N/A
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1. Topic:

New majordomo packages are available to fix local security problems in majordomo.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Powertools 6.1 - i386 alpha sparc

3. Problem description:

A vulnerability in /usr/lib/majordomo/resend and /usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper 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, which will resolve the vulnerability in /usr/lib/majordomo/resend.  To secure /usr/lib/majodomo/wrapper, please read the solution section below.

Once an official patch has been released by the majordomo maintainers, we will release an updated package which will fix both vulnerabilities.

4. Solution:

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filename]

where filename is the name of the RPM.

Once the package is installed, become "root" and execute this command:

chmod o-x /usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper

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

N/A

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Powertools 6.1:

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

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

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

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

7. Verification:

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

8. References:

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