Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Updated PWLib packages fix protocol security
issues
Advisory ID: RHSA-2004:048-01
Issue date: 2004-02-13
Updated on: 2004-02-13
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: h323 h225
Cross references:
Obsoletes:
CVE Names: CAN-2004-0097
1. Topic:
Updated PWLib packages that contain fixes for security issues
found during protocol testing by the NISCC are now available.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Linux 9 – i386
3. Problem description:
PWLib is a cross-platform class library designed to support the
OpenH323 project. OpenH323 provides an implementation of the ITU
H.323 teleconferencing protocol, used by packages such as Gnome
Meeting.
A test suite for the H.225 protocol (part of the H.323 family)
provided by the NISCC uncovered bugs in PWLib prior to version
1.6.0. An attacker could trigger these bugs by sending carefully
crafted messages to an application. The effects of such an attack
can vary depending on the application, but would usually result in
a Denial of Service. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
project (cve.mitre.org/) has
assigned the name CAN-2004-0097 to this issue.
Users are advised to upgrade to the erratum packages, which
contain backported security fixes and are not vulnerable to these
issues.
Red Hat would like to thank Craig Southeren of the OpenH323
project for providing the fixes for these issues.
4. Solution:
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.
To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run:
rpm -Fvh [filenames]
where [filenames] is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade.
Only those RPMs which are currently installed will be updated.
Those RPMs which are not installed but included in the list will
not be updated. Note that you can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if
your current directory only contains the desired RPMs.
Please note that this update is also available via Red Hat
Network. Many people find this an easier way to apply updates. To
use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the
following command:
up2date
This will start an interactive process that will result in the
appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.
If up2date fails to connect to Red Hat Network due to SSL
Certificate Errors, you need to install a version of the up2date
client with an updated certificate. The latest version of up2date
is available from the Red Hat FTP site and may also be downloaded
directly from the RHN website:
https://rhn.redhat.com/help/latest-up2date.pxt
5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
for more info):
114309 – CAN-2004-0097 PWlib/OpenH323 vulnerabilities
6. RPMs required:
Red Hat Linux 9:
SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/SRPMS/pwlib-1.4.7-4.1.src.rpm
i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/pwlib-1.4.7-4.1.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/pwlib-devel-1.4.7-4.1.i386.rpm
7. Verification:
MD5 sum Package Name
644c4c7b6ccc7c1302d24d598cbb7b7e
9/en/os/SRPMS/pwlib-1.4.7-4.1.src.rpm
9feae48c6c327b38456bee7223dd9c12
9/en/os/i386/pwlib-1.4.7-4.1.i386.rpm
d3de5afd6c80e736453110d47634c88b
9/en/os/i386/pwlib-devel-1.4.7-4.1.i386.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key
is available from https://www.redhat.com/security/keys.html
You can verify each package with the following command:
rpm –checksig -v <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:
md5sum <filename>
8. References:
http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2004/006489/h323.htm
http://www.postincrement.com/openh323/nissc_vulnerabilty.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0097
9. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More
contact details at https://www.redhat.com/solutions/security/news/contact.html
Copyright 2003 Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Updated XFree86 packages fix privilege escalation
vulnerability
Advisory ID: RHSA-2004:059-01
Issue date: 2004-02-13
Updated on: 2004-02-13
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords:
Cross references:
Obsoletes: RHSA-2003:288
CVE Names: CAN-2004-0083 CAN-2004-0084 CAN-2004-0106
1. Topic:
Updated XFree86 packages that fix a privilege escalation
vulnerability are now available.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Linux 9 – i386
3. Problem description:
XFree86 is an implementation of the X Window System, providing
the core graphical user interface and video drivers.
iDefense discovered two buffer overflows in the parsing of the
‘font.alias’ file. A local attacker could exploit this
vulnerability by creating a carefully-crafted file and gaining root
privileges. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
(cve.mitre.org/) has assigned
the names CAN-2004-0083 and CAN-2004-0084 to these issues.
Additionally David Dawes discovered additional flaws in reading
font files. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
(cve.mitre.org/) has assigned
the name CAN-2004-0106 to these issues.
All users of XFree86 are advised to upgrade to these erratum
packages, which contain a backported fix and are not vulnerable to
these issues.
Red Hat would like to thank David Dawes from XFree86 for the
patches and notification of these issues.
4. Solution:
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.
To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run:
rpm -Fvh [filenames]
where [filenames] is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade.
Only those RPMs which are currently installed will be updated.
Those RPMs which are not installed but included in the list will
not be updated. Note that you can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if
your current directory only contains the desired RPMs.
Please note that this update is also available via Red Hat
Network. Many people find this an easier way to apply updates. To
use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the
following command:
up2date
This will start an interactive process that will result in the
appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.
If up2date fails to connect to Red Hat Network due to SSL
Certificate Errors, you need to install a version of the up2date
client with an updated certificate. The latest version of up2date
is available from the Red Hat FTP site and may also be downloaded
directly from the RHN website:
https://rhn.redhat.com/help/latest-up2date.pxt
5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
for more info):
76959 – applications recieve too many keyboard events from X
114901 – CAN-2004-0083 XFree86 font.alias overflow
6. RPMs required:
Red Hat Linux 9:
SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/SRPMS/XFree86-4.3.0-2.90.55.src.rpm
i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-ISO8859-14-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-ISO8859-14-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-Xnest-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-devel-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-doc-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-font-utils-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-libs-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-sdk-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-syriac-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-tools-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-twm-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-xauth-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
7. Verification:
MD5 sum Package Name
d02a7a7d68a89eb6330824a46c944c81
9/en/os/SRPMS/XFree86-4.3.0-2.90.55.src.rpm
d2229ab25ab6bcb7fa46b31b0494fb99
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
481ce1f3cd1ed944c95c8bbf1b3e0905
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
c8a788ef8c475112bdceeccfe6a3546e
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
c932d2d854bd76a8d47b207ed885968b
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-ISO8859-14-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
8f26fa23a902ff3aa87cc1b306d72b61
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-ISO8859-14-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
35500771e9509c22a91a24ecca7889cf
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
4f2c4afe60b80795249b18b57f8e1311
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
6625628813a5172288c815fe98567c03
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
b9bf0c66282490b6a4fdc1c18997fa6e
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
f24d08da67cc0edd282d260ecc9a37c4
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
a54bcfa0c776f58524bd4848fe326869
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
e7fda0a3519b54141c93369bfa2c1b25
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
f0ae3a39808eb02a2dc16d0c42f584ec
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
8514ddc0d9fdb4c5bd027aed971ecb4c
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-Xnest-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
4e68c610ed20ae0f0c03c9025574b968
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
7756f4250379e0df816326c727c57d22
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
b60a57b72a287222f7d43169976b23a0
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
677698b35ee92580f698920c45b12074
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-devel-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
1a329b94a6e5af3fa6588781ec2e3d59
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-doc-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
3b17669f2fb11622a86e7ff41c8899a4
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-font-utils-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
cbd3f064fa8432540bbf122253f45c96
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-libs-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
8d85f153ac1ecc9e115ac21cb95e5a5b
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
bc17f7fed32e35e4f835fcf978e36b17
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-sdk-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
17c73f76b3b4056cf86a1a54e4c3e71d
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-syriac-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
5d193e89fe78511c28645f012a14f75c
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-tools-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
0ebb93ca3a20723bbaf034834fbd259d
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
25fbea5c33f283050b86a96519484082
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-twm-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
e6830e8b842ca4002cc48204363f6079
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-xauth-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
32b135e82338a223e985eb2bf3b06ebe
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
439856bed9767f63bcd4b56306208251
9/en/os/i386/XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key
is available from https://www.redhat.com/security/keys.html
You can verify each package with the following command:
rpm –checksig -v <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:
md5sum <filename>
8. References:
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=72
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=73
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0083
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0084
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0106
9. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More
contact details at https://www.redhat.com/solutions/security/news/contact.html
Copyright 2003 Red Hat, Inc.