Red Hat Linux General Security Advisory

 
Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory
Synopsis Updated gnupg packages available

Advisory ID RHSA-2000:089-04

Issue Date 2000-10-18

Updated On 2000-10-20

Product Red Hat Linux

Keywords gnupg signature

Cross References N/A



1. Topic:

Updated gnupg packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 6.2 and 7.

2. Problem description:

A problem has been found in GnuPG versions (up to and including 1.0.3).
Due to this problem, GnuPG may report files which have been signed with
multiple keys (one or more of which may be incorrect) to be valid even if
one of the signatures is invalid.

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

19312 - GnuPG signature verification bug

4. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Linux 6.2 - i386, alpha, sparc
Red Hat Linux 7.0 - i386

5. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 6.2:

alpha:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/en/os/alpha/gnupg-1.0.4-4.6.x.alpha.rpm

sparc:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/en/os/sparc/gnupg-1.0.4-4.6.x.sparc.rpm

i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/en/os/i386/gnupg-1.0.4-4.6.x.i386.rpm

sources:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/en/os/SRPMS/gnupg-1.0.4-4.6.x.src.rpm

Red Hat Linux 7.0:

i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/en/os/i386/gnupg-1.0.4-5.i386.rpm

sources:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/en/os/SRPMS/gnupg-1.0.4-5.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
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
db4be5be1d5b9643927d193096db3489  6.2/en/os/SRPMS/gnupg-1.0.4-4.6.x.src.rpm
204298ddaaa03d880099ee7c2129f8da  6.2/en/os/alpha/gnupg-1.0.4-4.6.x.alpha.rpm
7a8aecf95b78e5a94468426bb8cfafba  6.2/en/os/i386/gnupg-1.0.4-4.6.x.i386.rpm
427e64e2057c003c9f8e0fe05e72e168  6.2/en/os/sparc/gnupg-1.0.4-4.6.x.sparc.rpm
ee35a93aefd926f4b9528b371c08c584  7.0/en/os/SRPMS/gnupg-1.0.4-5.src.rpm
fc0d8aec076b4a9b8ed526a9ec5323a1  7.0/en/os/i386/gnupg-1.0.4-5.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:

http://www.securityfocus.com/vdb/bottom.html?vid=1797