Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 00:03:00 -0400
From: bugzilla@REDHAT.COM
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: [RHSA-2000:016-03] Multiple local imwheel
vulnerabilities
Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory
Synopsis: Multiple local imwheel vulnerabilities
Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:016-03
Issue date: 2000-04-20
Updated on: 2000-07-03
Product: Red Hat Powertools
Keywords: imwheel buffer imwheel-solo
Cross references: N/A
1. Topic:
Multiple vulnerabilities exist in imwheel.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Powertools 6.1 – i386 alpha sparc
Red Hat Powertools 6.2 – i386 alpha sparc
3. Problem description:
Multiple local vulnerabilities exist in imwheel.
* Read access violations where there is no checking of the file
itself, it follows a symlink blindly.
* Perl wrapper might allow other users on the machine to kill
the imwheel process.
4. Solution:
Because the core functionality of imwheel has been incorporated
into many existing applications, removing imwheel will not incur a
significant loss of functionality.
If the machine which has imwheel installed is not a single user
machine we recommend removing imwheel. To remove imwheel run this
command:
rpm -e imwheel
5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
for more info):
N/A
6. RPMs required:
N/A
7. Verification:
MD5 sum Package Name
N/A
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our
key is available at:
http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html
You can verify each package with the following command:
rpm –checksig
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
8. References:
N/A