Red Hat Linux Powertools Security Advisory

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Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory Synopsis kdelibs vulnerability for suid-root KDE applications Advisory ID RHSA-2000:032-02 Issue Date 2000-06-07 Updated On 2000-06-07 Product Red Hat Powertools Keywords N/A Cross References N/A 1. Topic: In kdelibs 1.1.2 there are security issues for some applications when they are run suid root. 2. Problem description: In kdelibs 1.1.2, there are security issues with the way some applications perform when they are run suid root. The only application vulnerable is kwintv from Powertools. With our PAM configuration, the suid bit for kwintv is not necessary. 3. Bug IDs fixed: (see bugzilla for more information) N/A - 4. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Powertools 6.0 - i386 Red Hat Powertools 6.1 - i386 Red Hat Powertools 6.2 - i386 5. RPMs required: Red Hat Powertools 6.2: intel: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/powertools/6.2/en/os/i386/kwintv-0.7.5-2.i386.rpm sources: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/powertools/6.2/en/os/SRPMS/kwintv-0.7.5-2.src.rpm 6. Solution: For each RPM for your particular architecture, run: rpm -Uvh [filename] where filename is the name of the RPM. 7. Verification: MD5 sum Package Name ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3757f47ebfcec111e6a63167873653ee 6.2/en/os/SRPMS/kwintv-0.7.5-2.src.rpm 72e10bb7dfb96a7c655a7f3db79d47a1 6.2/en/os/i386/kwintv-0.7.5-2.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