Red Hat Linux Powertools Security Advisory

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Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory Synopsis New BitchX packages are available Advisory ID RHSA-2000:126-03 Issue Date 2000-12-13 Updated On 2000-12-13 Product Red Hat Powertools Keywords N/A Cross References N/A 1. Topic: New BitchX packages are available which fix the problem with processing malformed DNS answers. 2. Problem description: A problem exists where BitchX will process malformed DNS answers, allowing an attacker to crash the client, or possibly access the BitchX session remotely. 3. Bug IDs fixed: (see bugzilla for more information) N/A - 4. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Powertools 6.0 - i386, alpha, sparc Red Hat Powertools 6.1 - i386, alpha, sparc Red Hat Powertools 6.2 - i386, alpha, sparc Red Hat Powertools 7.0 - i386, alpha 5. RPMs required: Red Hat Powertools 6.2: alpha: ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.2/en/os/alpha/BitchX-1.0c17-3.alpha.rpm sparc: ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.2/en/os/sparc/BitchX-1.0c17-3.sparc.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.2/en/os/i386/BitchX-1.0c17-3.i386.rpm sources: ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/6.2/en/os/SRPMS/BitchX-1.0c17-3.src.rpm Red Hat Powertools 7.0: alpha: ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/7.0/en/os/alpha/BitchX-1.0c17-4.alpha.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/7.0/en/os/alpha/gtkBitchX-1.0c17-4.alpha.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/7.0/en/os/i386/BitchX-1.0c17-4.i386.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/7.0/en/os/i386/gtkBitchX-1.0c17-4.i386.rpm sources: ftp://updates.redhat.com/powertools/7.0/en/os/SRPMS/BitchX-1.0c17-4.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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ee003d30c3658308bc034c559f0a5d4f 6.2/en/os/SRPMS/BitchX-1.0c17-3.src.rpm 0c0f7c0226cd479d679fe370b81435ff 6.2/en/os/alpha/BitchX-1.0c17-3.alpha.rpm 8030ff566122dcbe3f9c826ee54736f3 6.2/en/os/i386/BitchX-1.0c17-3.i386.rpm d3f6f4f172cbf54afe2af519c2efb471 6.2/en/os/sparc/BitchX-1.0c17-3.sparc.rpm f96cfc0210926861d1f9f797a91e528c 7.0/en/os/SRPMS/BitchX-1.0c17-4.src.rpm 16f31a2be5e84f99b83210aec219d24e 7.0/en/os/alpha/BitchX-1.0c17-4.alpha.rpm 157d026dded2ff8417a55ff793dbc26a 7.0/en/os/alpha/gtkBitchX-1.0c17-4.alpha.rpm c17d86c9b40a179fa6b069ec43c374a4 7.0/en/os/i386/BitchX-1.0c17-4.i386.rpm 461cf25450f5b3ba1f3a7d6b76c42eaa 7.0/en/os/i386/gtkBitchX-1.0c17-4.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/templates/archive.pike?list=1=149471