Red Hat Security Advisory: Updated stunnel packages available

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 20, 2000

Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:22:00 -0500
From: bugzilla@REDHAT.COM
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: [RHSA-2000:129-02] Updated stunnel packages available.


                   Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory

Synopsis:          Updated stunnel packages available.
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2000:129-02
Issue date:        2000-12-19
Updated on:        2000-12-19
Product:           Red Hat Linux
Keywords:          stunnel format-string syslog
Cross references:  N/A

1. Topic:

Updated stunnel packages are now available for Red Hat Linux
7.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Linux 7.0 – i386, alpha

3. Problem description:

Stunnel version 3.8 (and earlier) contained a format-string
vulnerability. Version 3.9 closes this vulnerability.

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/stunnel-3.9-1.alpha.rpm

i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/stunnel-3.9-1.i386.rpm

sources:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/SRPMS/stunnel-3.9-1.src.rpm

7. Verification:

MD5 sum                           Package Name

2aa24c225ce671e900888d7e9c2e2227 7.0/SRPMS/stunnel-3.9-1.src.rpm
6ea8e52b59f22d1918d09f5ddbb4b5d5 7.0/alpha/stunnel-3.9-1.alpha.rpm
ad9ac81fc70618cf66826d7f16435c6e 7.0/i386/stunnel-3.9-1.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:

http://stunnel.mirt.net/news.html

Copyright(c) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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