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Package imwheel-0.9.8-1
Synopsis imwheel buffer overflow
Advisory ID RHSA-2000:016-02
Issue Date 2000-04-20
Updated on 2000-04-21
Product Red Hat Powertools
Keywords imwheel buffer imwheel-solo


1. Topic:

A buffer overflow exists in imwheel

2. Problem description:

A vulnerability exists in the imwheel package where local users can execute arbitrary commands as root.

3. Bug IDs fixed: (see bugzilla for more information)
N/A

4. Relevant releases/architectures:

5. Obsoleted by:
N/A

6. Conflicts with:
N/A

7. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 6.1:

Red Hat Linux 6.2:

8. Solution:
For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

    rpm -Uvh filename

where filename is the name of the RPM.

9. Verification:

 MD5 sum                           Package Name
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
 fa97ae01087560b01ef0c08266e097b5  6.1/en/os/sparc/imwheel-0.9.8-1.sparc.rpm
 921c50608059cd74840d070e5f538202  6.1/en/os/SRPMS/imwheel-0.9.8-1.src.rpm
 0350d5be826d54f80948f4a4e9de6101  6.1/en/os/i386/imwheel-0.9.8-1.i386.rpm
 f1cc900d060fec5546a229f0a7a4d48d  6.1/en/os/alpha/imwheel-0.9.8-1.alpha.rpm
 fa97ae01087560b01ef0c08266e097b5  6.2/en/os/sparc/imwheel-0.9.8-1.sparc.rpm
 0350d5be826d54f80948f4a4e9de6101  6.2/en/os/i386/imwheel-0.9.8-1.i386.rpm
 f1cc900d060fec5546a229f0a7a4d48d  6.2/en/os/alpha/imwheel-0.9.8-1.alpha.rpm
 921c50608059cd74840d070e5f538202  6.2/en/os/SRPMS/imwheel-0.9.8-1.src.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key is available at:
http://www.redhat.com/about/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

Note that you need RPM >= 3.0 to check GnuPG keys.

10. References:

http://www.securityfocus.com/vdb/bottom.html?vid=1060