From k8e@TURBOLINUX.COM Thu Jul 13 00:05:16 2000 From: "Katherine M. Moussouris" X-Sender: k8e@qubit.dev.us.tlan To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 19:05:40 -0700 Reply-To: tl-security-announce@www1.turbolinux.com Subject: [TL-Security-Announce] gpm TLSA2000011-1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ______________________________________________________________________________ TurboLinux Security Announcement Package: gpm-1.19.1 and earlier Date: Fri May 26 18:13:46 PDT 2000 Affected TurboLinux versions: 6.0.4 and earlier Vulnerability Type: local root compromise TurboLinux Advisory ID#: TLSA2000011-1 BugTraq ID#: 1069 Credits: This vulnerability was posted to Bugtraq by Egmont Koblinger. ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 The gpm-root program, included in the gpm package, contains a programming error whereby a call to setgid() fails, and defaults to the group of the gpm-root binary. The group for the gpm-root binary in the affected installations is root. 2. Impact A user with console access can use this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands with elevated priviledges. 3. Solution Update the packages from our ftp server by running the following command for each package: rpm -Fvh ftp_path_to_filename Where ftp_path_to_filename is the following: ftp://ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/updates/6.0/security/gpm-1.19.2-5.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/updates/6.0/security/gpm-devel-1.19.2-5.i386.rpm The source RPM can be downloaded here: ftp://ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/updates/6.0/SRPMS/gpm-1.19.2-5.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 checksum of the update before you install: MD5 sum Package Name - ------------------------------------------------------------ 509dfa5effac6a33611420c8eb2913f6 gpm-1.19.2-5.i386.rpm 270376d6f9dcf3c37207bf6b8265e5a2 gpm-devel-1.19.2-5.i386.rpm c25705ec1fb6c0c28579e0c9a9943d29 gpm-1.19.2-5.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: 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 ______________________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE5Lyy57eR7bnHQKeQRAvNxAKCQ9Vp7mBCLt5X4cLEyxJCOgwzV2ACfSo18 /8h6N/CcyRFISJYINcm0h4Q= =zDHy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ TL-Security-Announce mailing list TL-Security-Announce@www.turbolinux.com http://www.turbolinux.com/mailman/listinfo/tl-security-announce