Updated usermode packages available
| Advisory: | RHSA-2000:075-08 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Security Advisory |
| Severity: | N/A |
| Issued on: | 2000-12-01 |
| Last updated on: | 2000-12-01 |
| Affected Products: | Red Hat Linux 6.2 Red Hat Linux 7.0 |
| CVEs (cve.mitre.org): |
CVE-2000-1207 |
Details
Updated usermode packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 6.x and 7.
2000-11-27: Added packages for Red Hat Linux 7 for Alpha
The usermode package contains a binary (/usr/bin/userhelper), which is used to control access to programs which are to be executed as root. Because programs invoked by userhelper are not actually running setuid-root, security measures built into recent versions of glibc are not active.
If one of these programs supports internationalized text messages, a
malicious user can use the LANG or LC_ALL environment variables (which are inherited by userhelper and, in turn, any programs it runs) to
create a format-string exploit in these programs.
These updated packages also fix a problem due to an incorrect path
specification in the /usr/bin/shutdown wrapper script and close a potential security vulnerability in the userhelper binary.
Solution
rpm -Fvh [filename]
where filename is the name of the RPM.
Updated packages
| Red Hat Linux 6.2 | |
| SRPMS: | |
| ftp://updates.redhat.com/rhn/repository/NULL/SysVinit/2.78-5/SRPMS/SysVinit-2.78-5.src.rpm Missing file |
MD5: 3310677ae7403c683e7947cd86b19344 |
| ftp://updates.redhat.com/rhn/repository/NULL/usermode/1.37-1.6/SRPMS/usermode-1.37-1.6.src.rpm Missing file |
MD5: e299c4b17b7eafdf66acf1fb21491d9b |
| Alpha: | |
| ftp://updates.redhat.com/rhn/repository/NULL/SysVinit/2.78-5/alpha/SysVinit-2.78-5.alpha.rpm Missing file |
MD5: 546bf7949c5be73b9f28b1819bfbd7c6 |
| ftp://updates.redhat.com/rhn/repository/NULL/usermode/1.37-1.6/alpha/usermode-1.37-1.6.alpha.rpm Missing file |
MD5: 978af994a09fcbc4bf1cb2fa2723bfe7 |
| IA-32: | |
| ftp://updates.redhat.com/rhn/repository/NULL/SysVinit/2.78-5/i386/SysVinit-2.78-5.i386.rpm Missing file |
MD5: ca5b97a1abb47b64d71ef69ab96fcb8a |
| ftp://updates.redhat.com/rhn/repository/NULL/usermode/1.37-1.6/i386/usermode-1.37-1.6.i386.rpm Missing file |
MD5: e8fe2db6f95348a93a373673b1c87443 |
| Sparc: | |
| ftp://updates.redhat.com/rhn/repository/NULL/SysVinit/2.78-5/sparc/SysVinit-2.78-5.sparc.rpm Missing file |
MD5: 4dfeacb8db12af4b2666f2792e1027c1 |
| ftp://updates.redhat.com/rhn/repository/NULL/usermode/1.37-1.6/sparc/usermode-1.37-1.6.sparc.rpm Missing file |
MD5: ba94a59a3a8195346735f202f28af3f8 |
| Red Hat Linux 7.0 | |
| SRPMS: | |
| ftp://updates.redhat.com/rhn/repository/NULL/usermode/1.37-2/SRPMS/usermode-1.37-2.src.rpm Missing file |
MD5: ede9b759a01552a261c67ebf0238794a |
| Alpha: | |
| ftp://updates.redhat.com/rhn/repository/NULL/usermode/1.37-2/alpha/usermode-1.37-2.alpha.rpm Missing file |
MD5: 6cd3999fa6015fcf301b502d4a416373 |
| IA-32: | |
| ftp://updates.redhat.com/rhn/repository/NULL/usermode/1.37-2/i386/usermode-1.37-2.i386.rpm Missing file |
MD5: c32888b6f362b04f8a3805d4465c042a |
Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)
20027 - /usr/sbin/userhelper dies in segmentation fault
References
Keywords
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from:
https://www.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package
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