From info@calderasystems.com Wed Apr 28 14:46:58 1999 From: Caldera Systems Information To: caldera-announce@rim.caldera.com Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:06:58 -0600 Reply-To: info@caldera.com Subject: SECURITY [CSSA-1999:009.0] -- COAS -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ______________________________________________________________________________ Caldera Systems, Inc. Security Advisory Subject: COAS Advisory number: CSSA-1999:009.0 Issue date: 1999 04 27 Cross reference: ______________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem Description /etc/shadow may get world readable 2. Vulnerable Versions Systems: OpenLinux 2.2. Packages: previous to coas-1.0-8 3. Solutions The proper solution is to upgrade to the coas-1.0-8 package. If /etc/shadow is world-readable, this is fixed with chmod 600 /etc/shadow 4. Location of Fixed Packages The upgrade packages can be found on Caldera's FTP site at: ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/OpenLinux/updates/2.2/current/RPMS/ The corresponding source code package can be found at: ftp://ftp.calderaystems.com/pub/OpenLinux/updates/2.2/current/SRPMS 5. Installing Fixed Packages Upgrade the affected packages with the following commands: rpm -q coas && rpm -U coas-1.0-8.i386.rpm 6. Verification The MD5 checksums (from the "md5sum" command) for these packages are: 1efa8cde40f5684293e03c2499f2f59f README b3fa473f6ba574052991bf2254bd378d RPMS/coas-1.0-8.i386.rpm 3bfa00aa3230f97537e8baa2c0454d08 SRPMS/coas-1.0-8.src.rpm 7. References This and other Caldera security resources are located at: http://www.calderasystems.com/news/security/index.html Additional documentation on this problem can be found in: This security fix closes Caldera's internal Problem Report 4544. 8. Disclaimer Caldera Systems, Inc. is not responsible for the misuse of any of the information we provide on this website and/or through our security advisories. Our advisories are a service to our customers intended to promote secure installation and use of Caldera OpenLinux. ______________________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNyW4/+n+9R4958LpAQHntgP/cHhIOaKUPRfeBOtMQP7lZ2NQlEPrqzkq cu/Q9IvIqrvm/mFikznaMTdehz0Jql2NuY2Zjs0MUdF0Rm7KsgBQ6BYX+10GAE2W HAZIuYQ2zeM2acGcrvzGYExkKmrLOfhD77V9l7rZ9WieQO7B8vmj5N4nGdkUNz2U j+AigG8FJNI= =O2I/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - Notes: To learn how to use this list server, email a "help" command to majordomo@rim.caldera.com.