Red Hat Linux General Security Advisory

Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory Synopsis Updated nss_ldap packages are now available. Advisory ID RHSA-2000:024-03 Issue Date 2000-10-27 Updated On 2000-11-27 Product Red Hat Linux Keywords N/A Cross References N/A 1. Topic: Updated nss_ldap packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 6.1, 6.2, and 7. 2000-11-27: Added packages for Red Hat Linux 7 for Alpha. 2. Problem description: A race condition has been found in the nss_ldap package. On a system running nscd, a malicious user can cause the system to hang. 3. Bug IDs fixed: (see bugzilla for more information) 11187 - nss_ldap-106 exposes shadow passwords when nscd active 19923 - nss_ldap has a bug that can deadlock a machine 4. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Linux 6.1 - i386, alpha, sparc Red Hat Linux 6.2 - i386, alpha, sparc Red Hat Linux 7.0 - i386, alpha 5. RPMs required: Red Hat Linux 6.1: alpha: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/en/os/alpha/nss_ldap-122-1.6.alpha.rpm sparc: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/en/os/sparc/nss_ldap-122-1.6.sparc.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/en/os/i386/nss_ldap-122-1.6.i386.rpm sources: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/en/os/SRPMS/nss_ldap-122-1.6.src.rpm Red Hat Linux 6.2: alpha: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/en/os/alpha/nss_ldap-122-1.6.alpha.rpm sparc: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/en/os/sparc/nss_ldap-122-1.6.sparc.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/en/os/i386/nss_ldap-122-1.6.i386.rpm sources: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/en/os/SRPMS/nss_ldap-122-1.6.src.rpm Red Hat Linux 7.0: alpha: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/en/os/alpha/nss_ldap-122-1.7.alpha.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/en/os/i386/nss_ldap-122-1.7.i386.rpm sources: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/en/os/SRPMS/nss_ldap-122-1.7.src.rpm 6. Solution: For each RPM for your particular architecture, run: rpm -Fvh [filename] where filename is the name of the RPM. 7. Verification: MD5 sum Package Name ------------------------------------------------------------------------- d6ccb0a79d788abc6b82be62981582dd 6.1/en/os/SRPMS/nss_ldap-122-1.6.src.rpm 08d8e980347fe7d81e29e1ca27e7cb09 6.1/en/os/alpha/nss_ldap-122-1.6.alpha.rpm 4d47831ae8516106392e74f5e1f2fd02 6.1/en/os/i386/nss_ldap-122-1.6.i386.rpm f12cc2e7f9ab1c5faed9c647bfcbab03 6.1/en/os/sparc/nss_ldap-122-1.6.sparc.rpm d6ccb0a79d788abc6b82be62981582dd 6.2/en/os/SRPMS/nss_ldap-122-1.6.src.rpm 08d8e980347fe7d81e29e1ca27e7cb09 6.2/en/os/alpha/nss_ldap-122-1.6.alpha.rpm 4d47831ae8516106392e74f5e1f2fd02 6.2/en/os/i386/nss_ldap-122-1.6.i386.rpm f12cc2e7f9ab1c5faed9c647bfcbab03 6.2/en/os/sparc/nss_ldap-122-1.6.sparc.rpm 7d3dedc08a5db1c30964389a8a3493ab 7.0/en/os/SRPMS/nss_ldap-122-1.7.src.rpm 8c47242abcd4aa16174cb41da27cdd12 7.0/en/os/alpha/nss_ldap-122-1.7.alpha.rpm 95337178e79472118cf33b0584462679 7.0/en/os/i386/nss_ldap-122-1.7.i386.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. 8. References: N/A