Linux Today SECURITY LETTER FOR AUGUST 25, 2000 Latest Security News for the Linux and Open Source Community. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ TODAY'S LINUX SECURITY NEWS: ------------------------------------------------------------------ CALDERA SYSTEMS SECURITY ADVISORY: LD.SO UNSETENV PROBLEM "A bug has been discovered in ld.so that could allow local users to obtain super user privilege." COMPLETE STORY: http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=26736 ------------------------------------------------------------------ LINUX-MANDRAKE SECURITY UPDATE ADVISORY: XCHAT UPDATE "XChat 1.3.9 and later allow users to right-click on a URL appearing in an IRC discussion and select the "Open in Browser" option. To open the URL in a browser, XChat passes the command to /bin/sh. This allows a malicious URL the ability to execute arbitrary shell commands as the user that is running XChat." 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COMPLETE STORY: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/08/24/000824hnpgp.xml ------------------------------------------------------------------ LINUXNEWBIE.ORG: HOW TO CREATE A SECURE INSTALL "I can't stress enough that security is an important and ongoing concern, one that starts with installing and configuring your system as a stand alone box (so that it can't get hacked before you harden it), continues with constant attention to security holes and fixes, and then never ends." COMPLETE STORY: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/articles/secureinstall.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ Visit the other sites in the Linux Channel: Linux Planet <http://www.linuxplanet.com>, LinuxStart <http://www.linuxstart.com>, Linux Central <http://www.linuxcentral.com>, and JustLinux <http://www.justlinux.com>. 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