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Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory
Synopsis: Multiple local imwheel vulnerabilities
Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:016-03
Issue date: 2000-04-20
Updated on: 2000-07-03
Product: Red Hat Powertools
Keywords: imwheel buffer imwheel-solo
Cross references: N/A
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1. Topic:
Multiple vulnerabilities exist in imwheel.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Powertools 6.1 - i386 alpha sparc
Red Hat Powertools 6.2 - i386 alpha sparc
3. Problem description:
Multiple local vulnerabilities exist in imwheel.
* Read access violations where there is no checking of the file
itself, it follows a symlink blindly.
* Perl wrapper might allow other users on the machine to kill
the imwheel process.
4. Solution:
Because the core functionality of imwheel has been incorporated
into many existing applications, removing imwheel will not
incur a significant loss of functionality.
If the machine which has imwheel installed is not a single user
machine we recommend removing imwheel. To remove imwheel run
this command:
rpm -e imwheel
5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla for more info):
N/A
6. RPMs required:
N/A
7. Verification:
MD5 sum Package Name
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N/A
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key
is available at:
http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html
You can verify each package with the following command:
rpm --checksig <filename>
If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or
tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command:
rpm --checksig --nogpg <filename>
8. References:
N/A
Received on Jul 05 2000
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