From greg@WIREX.COM Thu Nov 16 17:33:14 2000 From: Greg KH To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:36:27 -0800 Subject: [BUGTRAQ] Immunix OS Security update for modutils ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Immunix OS Security Advisory Packages updated: modutils Effected products: Immunix OS 6.2, Immunix OS 7.0-beta Bugs Fixed: immunix/1292 Date: November 16, 2000 Advisory ID: IMNX-2000-70-006-01 Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: A local root exploit in the modutils package has been fixed. This problem was originally found by Sebastian Krahmer and Michal Zalewski (see Michal's posting at http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/144552 for more information.) This problems effects both Immunix 6.2 and 7.0 beta. Packages have been created and released for both versions. This update also has the added benefit of providing a modutils package that supports the latest Linux USB hotplug support :) Package names and locations: Precompiled binary packages for Immunix 6.2 are available at: http://www.immunix.org:8080/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/RPMS/modutils-2.3.20-0.6.2_StackGuard.i386.rpm Source packages for Immunix 6.2 are available at: http://www.immunix.org:8080/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/SRPMS/modutils-2.3.20-0.6.2_StackGuard.src.rpm Precompiled binary packages for Immunix System 7 beta are available at: http://www.immunix.org:8080/ImmunixOS/7.0-beta/updates/RPMS/modutils-2.3.20-1_StackGuard.i386.rpm Source packages for Immunix 7.0 are available at: http://www.immunix.org:8080/ImmunixOS/7.0-beta/updates/SRPMS/modutils-2.3.20-1_StackGuard.src.rpm md5sums of the packages: c3f8322355850af8a4e08e979582925d 6.2/updates/RPMS/modutils-2.3.20-0.6.2_StackGuard.i386.rpm 5d283311a5733e998d7175f892eaae6b 6.2/updates/SRPMS/modutils-2.3.20-0.6.2_StackGuard.src.rpm 81e5afdda886b840e36457c4c3cfe9d8 7.0-beta/updates/RPMS/modutils-2.3.20-1_StackGuard.i386.rpm b1037bce7256337420c52f0225271c4b 7.0-beta/updates/SRPMS/modutils-2.3.20-1_StackGuard.src.rpm [Part 2, Application/PGP-SIGNATURE 240bytes] [Unable to print this part]