Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 07:34 -0500
From: redhat-watch-list-admin@redhat.com
To: redhat-watch-list@redhat.com
Subject: [RHSA-2000:130-05] Updated rp-pppoe packages fixing denial
of service attack are available.
Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory
Synopsis: Updated rp-pppoe packages fixing denial of service attack are available.
Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:130-05
Issue date: 2000-12-19
Updated on: 2000-12-20
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: rp-pppoe pppoe DSL ADSL DoS denial of service
Cross references: N/A
1. Topic:
Updated rp-pppoe packages fixing a denial of service attack are
available.(Patch from the rp-pppoe author, David F. Skoll dfs@roaringpenguin.com)
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Linux 7.0 – i386, alpha
3. Problem description:
Bad TCP packets (e.g. a SYN packet with kind=3, len=0) over a
PPP-over-Ethernet link could lock up rp-pppoe.
4. Solution:
For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:rpm -Fvh
[filename]where filename is the name of the RPM.
5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
for more info):
N/A
6. RPMs required:
Red Hat Linux 7.0:
alpha:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/alpha/rp-pppoe-2.5-1.alpha.rpm
i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/rp-pppoe-2.5-1.i386.rpm
sources:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/SRPMS/rp-pppoe-2.5-1.src.rpm
7. Verification:
MD5 sum Package Name
76fcab23eb254faf29de37a1efa5dc28 7.0/SRPMS/rp-pppoe-2.5-1.src.rpm bd65c6557eed2cd8bcaa73d209f580bf 7.0/alpha/rp-pppoe-2.5-1.alpha.rpm 0921d71844e44b250d2b6282e1b66475 7.0/i386/rp-pppoe-2.5-1.i386.rpm
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 <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>
8. References:
N/A
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