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SuSE Security Announcement
Package: pbpg-1.x
Date: Tue Sep 21 00:35:49 MEST 1999
Affected: all Linux distributions using pbpg
A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above.
Please update as soon as possible or disable the service if you are
using this software on your SuSE Linux installation(s).
Other Linux distributions or operating systems might be affected
as well, please contact your vendor for information about this
issue.
Please note, that that we provide this information on as “as-is”
basis only. There is no warranty whatsoever and no liability for
any direct, indirect or incidental damage arising from this
information or the installation of the update package.
- Problem Description
The /usr/bin/pg and /usr/bin/pb tools can be used to read any
file on the system. - Impact
An attacker can read e.g the /etc/shadow file or private
email. - Solution
Updated the pbpg package from our FTP server.
Here are the md5 checksums of the upgrade packages, please
verify these before installing the new packages:
a3591927cdb148abdc32b677fa5caa33 pbpg-1.2-0.i386.rpm
You will find the update on our ftp-Server:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/ham1/pbpg-1.2-0.i386.rpm
Webpage for patches:
http://www.suse.de/patches/index.html
or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors:
http://www.suse.de/ftp.html
http://www.suse.com/ftp_new.html