From kbeyer@TURBOLINUX.COM Thu Dec 21 02:42:09 2000 From: Kevin Beyer To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 20:36:57 -0700 Reply-To: tl-security-announce@www1.turbolinux.com Subject: [BUGTRAQ] [TL-Security-Announce] sysklogd TLSA2000022-2 [The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] ___________________________________________________________________________ TurboLinux Security Announcement Packages: sysklogd-1.3.31-5 and earlier Date: Monday September 18 20:25 PDT 2000 Affected TurboLinux versions: 6.0.5 and earlier TurboLinux Advisory ID#: TLSA2000022-2 ___________________________________________________________________________ A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above. Please update the package in your installation as soon as possible. ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem Summary Various vulnerabilities exist in syslogd/klogd. By exploiting these vulnerabilities, it could be possible for local users to gain root access. 2. Impact Can allow root access to local users. 3. Thanks Thanks to Jouko Pynnönen for finding the bugs and to Solar Designer and to Martin Schulze. 4. 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/sysklogd-1.3.31-6.i386.rpm The source RPM can be downloaded here: ftp://ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/updates/6.0/SRPMS/sysklogd-1.3.31-6.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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- a0d9caa3476cacd8691fa674ceedb1ce sysklogd-1.3.31-6.i386.rpm 572302711375c6bb0b6e36c388fd9cc5 sysklogd-1.3.31-6.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]