From security@TURBOLINUX.COM Thu Feb 8 18:57:49 2001 From: security@TURBOLINUX.COM To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:59:42 -0800 Subject: [BUGTRAQ] [TL-Security-Announce] netscape-communicator-4.76-5 TLSA2000020-2 ____________________________________________________________________________________________ TurboLinux Security Announcement Vulnerable Packages: netscape-communicator 4.75-1 and earlier Date: 02/05/2001 5:00 PDT Affected TurboLinux versions:TL 6.1 WorkStation, All TurboLinux versions 6.0.5 and earlier TurboLinux Advisory ID#: TLSA2000020-2 Credits: Vulnerability discovered by Michal Zalewski . _____________________________________________________________________________________________ A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above. Please update the package in your installation as soon as possible. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem Summary(From the Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory) A buffer overflow exists in Netscape's HTML parsing code. By using specially designed code, a remote website could cause arbitrary code to be run on the local machine. 2. 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/security/netscape-communicator-4.76-5.i386.rpm The source RPM can be downloaded here: ftp://ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/updates/6.0/SRPMS/netscape-communicator-4.76-5.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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- d69902adc2de22300c81f1c3c080f8f3 netscape-communicator-4.76-5.i386.rpm df53191a6c10ba901fba3f259ef0d987 netscape-communicator-4.76-5.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: 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]