Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory
Synopsis	Updated stunnel packages available.
Advisory ID	RHSA-2000:129-02
Issue Date	2000-12-19
Updated On	2000-12-19
Product	Red Hat Linux
Keywords	stunnel format-string syslog
Cross References	N/A

1. Topic: Updated stunnel packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 7. 2. Problem description: Stunnel version 3.8 (and earlier) contained a format-string vulnerability. Version 3.9 closes this vulnerability. 3. Bug IDs fixed: (see bugzilla for more information) N/A - 4. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Linux 7.0 - i386, alpha 5. RPMs required: Red Hat Linux 7.0: alpha: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/en/os/alpha/stunnel-3.9-1.alpha.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/en/os/i386/stunnel-3.9-1.i386.rpm sources: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/en/os/SRPMS/stunnel-3.9-1.src.rpm 6. Solution: For each RPM for your particular architecture, run: rpm -Fvh [filename] where filename is the name of the RPM. 7. Verification: MD5 sum Package Name ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2aa24c225ce671e900888d7e9c2e2227 7.0/en/os/SRPMS/stunnel-3.9-1.src.rpm 6ea8e52b59f22d1918d09f5ddbb4b5d5 7.0/en/os/alpha/stunnel-3.9-1.alpha.rpm ad9ac81fc70618cf66826d7f16435c6e 7.0/en/os/i386/stunnel-3.9-1.i386.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key is available at: http://www.redhat.com/about/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 Note that you need RPM >= 3.0 to check GnuPG keys. 8. References: http://stunnel.mirt.net/news.html