_____________________________________________________________________________________________ TurboLinux Security Announcement Package: cvsweb Vulnerable Packages: All Turbolinux versions previous to 1.91-3 Date: 05/03/2001 5:00 PDT Affected TurboLinux versions: TL Server 6.5, TL Workstation 6.1, Turbolinux versions 6.0.5 and earlier TurboLinux Advisory ID#: TLSA2001010 Credits: Vulnerability discovered by Joey Hess _____________________________________________________________________________________________ A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above. Please update the package in your installation as soon as possible or disable the service. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem Summary Current and previous version of cvsweb allow remote users to access/write files as the default web user via the cvsweb.cgi script. 2. Impact Remote read/write access to arbitrary files owned by the default web user is possible via this exploit. 3. Solution Update the packages from our ftp server by running the following command: rpm -Uvh ftp_path_to_filename Where ftp_path_to_filename is the following: ftp://ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/updates/6.0/security/cvsweb-1.93-1.noarch.rpm The source RPM can be downloaded here: ftp://ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/updates/6.0/SRPMS/cvsweb-1.93-1.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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 701bc3687dd2259fa6090e845d37fe4a cvsweb-1.93-1.noarch.rpm 210077135b6aa6df2d693c5be9771910 cvsweb-1.93-1.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 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 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