Immunix OS Security Advisory: sgml-tools | Linux Today

Immunix OS Security Advisory: sgml-tools

Written By
GK
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Mar 16, 2001

Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:56:51 -0800
From: Greg KH greg@WIREX.COM
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: Immunix OS Security update for sgml-tools


        Immunix OS Security Advisory

Packages updated:       sgml-tools
Affected products:      Immunix OS 6.2, 7.0-beta, and 7.0
Bugs Fixed:             immunix/1508
Date:                   March 15, 2001
Advisory ID:            IMNX-2001-70-008-01
Author:                 Greg Kroah-Hartman 

Description:
Previous versions of the sgml-tools package would create temporary
files without any special permissions in the /tmp directory. This
could allow any user to read files that were being created by any
other user.

Packages have been created and released that fix these
problems.

Package names and locations:

Precompiled binary package for Immunix 6.2 is available at:

http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/RPMS/sgml-tools-1.0.9-6.2_StackGuard.i386.rpm

Source package for Immunix 6.2 is available at:

http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/SRPMS/sgml-tools-1.0.9-6.2_StackGuard.src.rpm

Precompiled binary package for Immunix 7.0-beta and 7.0 is
available at:

http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/RPMS/sgml-tools-1.0.9-9_imnx.i386.rpm

Source package for Immunix 7.0-beta and 7.0 is available at:

http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/SRPMS/sgml-tools-1.0.9-9_imnx.src.rpm

md5sums of the packages:
5018e4610623614ee09a4c8df2720e65 sgml-tools-1.0.9-6.2_StackGuard.i386.rpm
bf87f7011f0fee4a7739da6f8f86f78f sgml-tools-1.0.9-6.2_StackGuard.src.rpm
0ea3b602e9f57fb33ce95272f34f6308 sgml-tools-1.0.9-9_imnx.i386.rpm
b465fe6336cafd5acd9fb75eb9ca5f47 sgml-tools-1.0.9-9_imnx.src.rpm

Online version of all Immunix 6.2 updates and advisories:
http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/

Online version of all Immunix 7.0-beta updates and
advisories:
http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0-beta/updates/

Online version of all Immunix 7.0 updates and advisories:
http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/

NOTE:
Ibiblio is graciously mirroring our updates, so if the links above
are slow, please try:
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/immunix/

or one of the many mirrors available at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html

GK

Greg Kroah-Hartman

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