From kbeyer@TURBOLINUX.COM Tue Oct 17 20:48:54 2000 From: Kevin Beyer To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:42:47 -0700 Reply-To: tl-security-announce@www1.turbolinux.com Subject: [BUGTRAQ] [TL-Security-Announce] traceroute TLSA2000023-1 ___________________________________________________________________________ TurboLinux Security Announcement Package: traceroute-1.4a5 and earlier Date: Tuesday October 17 11:30 PDT 2000 Affected TurboLinux versions: 6.0.5 and earlier TurboLinux Advisory ID#: TLSA2000023-1 ___________________________________________________________________________ A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above. Please update the package in your installation as soon as possible. ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem Summary There is a bug in the traceroute command that can possibly be use by local users to obtain super user privilege. It is suggested to upgrade your traceroute to the version provided. 2. Impact Possibility for regular user gaining root access on a machine. 3. Solution Update the package from our ftp server by running the following command: rpm -Uvh --nodeps --Force ftp_path_to_filename Where ftp_path_to_filename is the following: ftp://ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/updates/6.0/traceroute-1.4a7-2.i386.rpm The source RPM can be downloaded here: ftp://ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/updates/6.0/SRPMS/traceroute-1.4a7-2.src.rpm **Note: You must rebuild and install the RPM if you choose to download and install the SRPM. Simply installing the SRPM alone WILL NOT CLOSE THE SECURITY HOLE. Please verify the MD5 checksums of the updates before you install: MD5 sum Package Name --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1cf930da2a35d76ed3a9f76040a8a925 traceroute-1.4a7-2.i386.rpm 71f10681bdb18840b8432ab890ff4280 traceroute-1.4a7-2.src.rpm ___________________________________________________________________________ These packages are GPG signed by Turbolinux for security. Our key is available here: http://www.turbolinux.com/security/tlgpgkey.asc To verify a package, use the following command: rpm --checksig name_of_rpm To examine only the md5sum, use the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg name_of_rpm **Note: Checking GPG keys requires RPM 3.0 or higher. ___________________________________________________________________________ You can find more updates on our ftp server: ftp://ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/updates/6.0/security/ for TL6.0 Workstation and Server security updates ftp://ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/updates/4.0/security/ for TL4.0 Workstation and Server security updates Our webpage for security announcements: http://www.turbolinux.com/security If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact: rt-security@turbolinux.com ___________________________________________________________________________ Subscribe to the TurboLinux Security Mailing lists: TL-security - A moderated list for discussing security issues in TurboLinux products. Subscribe at http://www.turbolinux.com/mailman/listinfo/tl-security TL-security-announce - An announce-only mailing list for security updates and alerts. Subscribe at http://www.turbolinux.com/mailman/listinfo/tl-security-announce [Part 2, Application/PGP-SIGNATURE 240bytes] [Unable to print this part]