From tsl@trustix.org Fri Nov 28 17:43:06 2003 From: Trustix Security Advisor To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:48:37 +0100 Subject: TSLSA-2003-0045 - stunnel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory #2003-0045 Package name: stunnel Summary: new upstream version Date: 2003-11-27 Affected versions: TSL 1.2, 1.5 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package description: stunnel is a socket wrapper which can be used to give ordinary applications SSL (secure sockets layer) support. For example, it can be used in conjunction with a imapd to create a SSL secure IMAP server. Problem description: Stunnel 3.24 and earlier (as well as 4.0x x<4) does not properly handle SIGCHLD signals safely. Stunnel 3.26 is now available and fixes this problem. This upgrade also fixes some additional bugs. Action: We recommend that all systems with this package installed be upgraded. Please note that if you do not need the functionality provided by this package, you may want to remove it from your system. Location: All TSL updates are available from About Trustix Secure Linux: Trustix Secure Linux is a small Linux distribution for servers. With focus on security and stability, the system is painlessly kept safe and up to date from day one using swup, the automated software updater. Automatic updates: Users of the SWUP tool can enjoy having updates automatically installed using 'swup --upgrade'. Public testing: These packages have been available for public testing for some time. If you want to contribute by testing the various packages in the testing tree, please feel free to share your findings on the tsl-discuss mailinglist. The testing tree is located at You may also use swup for public testing of updates: site { class = 0 location = "http://tsldev.trustix.org/cloud/rdfs/latest.rdf" regexp = ".*" } Questions? Check out our mailing lists: Verification: This advisory along with all TSL packages are signed with the TSL sign key. This key is available from: The advisory itself is available from the errata pages at and or directly at MD5sums of the packages: - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 46896859a663be9d197e463af32165c8 ./1.5/srpms/stunnel-3.26-1tr.src.rpm 1b3f9d52a3da6b0392bcca2b0fb4c4e5 ./1.5/rpms/stunnel-3.26-1tr.i586.rpm c6fdf2ce76913c3d6dd87b8ce2effd3e ./1.2/srpms/stunnel-3.26-1tr.src.rpm 508f502abf103b218cb461f126102155 ./1.2/rpms/stunnel-3.26-1tr.i586.rpm - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TSL Security Team -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/xgHoi8CEzsK9IksRArd4AJ9GcpPzFoESXrO9yPRXMSxgeuldNQCePB2S VQbXhFYI4uBIJCWjN87iW38= =m+n5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----