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This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms876E9DAF3D88F2059164E519 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -------- Original Message -------- Subject: SuSE Security Announcement Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 00:41:03 +0200 (MEST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Biege) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients:; -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE Security Announcement Package: man-2.3.10-42 Date: Tue Jun 29 00:22:52 CEST 1999 Affected: all Linux distributions using man-2.3.10 ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 zsoelim program, which is part of the man package, creates files in /tmp without security checkings. 2. Impact By creating symbolic links an attacker could overwrite files with the permissions of the user executing man. 3. Solution Install the updated man package, which is available from our ftp server since some weeks. ______________________________________________________________________________ Here are the md5 checksums of the upgrade packages, please verify these before installing the new packages: d95cbd1e35924738c7e53226d2298a4b man-2.3.10-76.i386.rpm cc96fa227766d50001d2800349bccb52 man-2.3.10-76.src.rpm ______________________________________________________________________________ You will find the updates on our ftp-Server: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/a1/man-2.3.10-76.i386.rpm (glibc) ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/zq1/man-2.3.10-76.src.rpm (Source) Webpage for patches: http://www.suse.de/patches/index.html or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors: http://www.suse.de/ftp.html http://www.suse.com/ftp_new.html ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE has got two free security mailing list services to which any interested party may subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unmoderated and for general/linux/SuSE security discussions. 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