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SuSE Linux Advisories: libmcrypt, openssl


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                        SuSE Security Announcement

        Package:                libmcrypt
        Announcement-ID:        SuSE-SA:2003:0010
        Date:                   Wednesday, Feb. 26th 2003 11:20 MET
        Affected products:      7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 8.1
                                SuSE eMail Server 3.1
                                SuSE eMail Server III
                                SuSE Linux Connectivity Server
                                SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7
                                SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
                                SuSE Linux Office Server
        Vulnerability Type:     local privilege escalation
                                remote denial-of-service
        Severity (1-10):        3
        SuSE default package:   no
        Cross References:       CAN-2003-0031
                                CAN-2003-0032

    Content of this advisory:
        1) security vulnerability resolved: buffer overflow
           problem description, discussion, solution and upgrade information
        2) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds:
            - openssl
            - vnc
            - w3m
        3) standard appendix (further information)

____________________________________________________________________________

1)  problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information

    Libmcrypt is a data encryption library that is able to load crypto-
    modules at run-time by using libltdl.
    Versions of libmcrypt prior to 2.5.5 include several buffer overflows
    that can be triggered by passing very long input to the mcrypt_*
    functions.
    The way libmcrypt handles dynamic crypto-modules via libltdl leads
    to memory-leaks that can cause a Denial-of-Service condition. This
    Problem can just be solved by linking modules static. This security
    update does not solve the memory-leak problem to avoid compatibility
    problems. Future releases of libmcrypt will be linked statically.

    To add the new library to the shared library cache you have to run
    ldconfig(8) as root. Additionally every program that is linked with
    libmcrypt needs to be restarted. ldd(1) can be used to find out which
    libraries are used by a program.
    Another way to determine which process uses a shared library that
    had been deleted is:
      lsof -n 2>/dev/null | grep RPMDELETE | cut -d " "  -f 1 | sort | uniq


    There is no temporary fix known. Please install the new packages from
    our FTP servers.

    Please download the update package for your distribution and verify its
    integrity by the methods listed in section 3) of this announcement.
    Then, install the package using the command "rpm -Fhv file.rpm" to apply
    the update.
    Our maintenance customers are being notified individually. The packages
    are being offered to install from the maintenance web.


    Intel i386 Platform:

    SuSE-8.1:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/i586/libmcrypt-2.5.2-48.i586.rpm
      6dc3127a069545b9cb00cafd9897021f
    patch rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/i586/libmcrypt-2.5.2-48.i586.patch.rpm
      3b88d2a7f1bf409ec6cdee4702c8dc40
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/src/libmcrypt-2.5.2-48.src.rpm
      8feed7301cb26aaa27084baea4a1677e

    SuSE-8.1:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/i586/libmcrypt-devel-2.5.2-48.i586.rpm
      52bdf4a54df9fc698971fc1223b73d3d
    patch rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/i586/libmcrypt-devel-2.5.2-48.i586.patch.rpm
      5ecc44d5b4d6f35a4f57db1d7092575e
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/src/libmcrypt-2.5.2-48.src.rpm
      8feed7301cb26aaa27084baea4a1677e

    SuSE-8.0:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/sec2/libmcrypt-2.4.20-114.i386.rpm
      45997d80e97ce180a14b692b1f63b34b
    patch rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/sec2/libmcrypt-2.4.20-114.i386.patch.rpm
      5ee228e095fbb3f53027a8a902978975
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/zq1/libmcrypt-2.4.20-114.src.rpm
      6c189dcf7bcbffa7f271cdeb9065e212

    SuSE-8.0:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/d4/libmcrypt-devel-2.4.20-114.i386.rpm
      36b45ac7281a3dd2ba94794e26012180
    patch rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/d4/libmcrypt-devel-2.4.20-114.i386.patch.rpm
      21ad28cb8dad5e418f0185b53470502c
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/zq1/libmcrypt-2.4.20-114.src.rpm
      6c189dcf7bcbffa7f271cdeb9065e212

    SuSE-7.3:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/sec2/libmcrypt-2.4.15-98.i386.rpm
      f38972e593b79b8e22d5db86d9f75083
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/zq1/libmcrypt-2.4.15-98.src.rpm
      8390dbcef0b58b3cca5141254f3af8ea

    SuSE-7.3:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/sec2/libmcrypt-devel-2.4.15-98.i386.rpm
      6c5df7c177d88509aa10868142262868
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/zq1/libmcrypt-2.4.15-98.src.rpm
      8390dbcef0b58b3cca5141254f3af8ea

    SuSE-7.2:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/sec2/libmcrypt-2.4.10-59.i386.rpm
      5ff561010a642a26f92b1a491df6317c
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/zq1/libmcrypt-2.4.10-59.src.rpm
      5430bf5ca7f79c16248024cbd6eb735a

    SuSE-7.2:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/sec2/libmcrypt-devel-2.4.10-59.i386.rpm
      7afa785605e65106a3a250bd166ca2ef
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/zq1/libmcrypt-2.4.10-59.src.rpm
      5430bf5ca7f79c16248024cbd6eb735a

    SuSE-7.1:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/sec2/libmcrypt-2.4.7-19.i386.rpm
      4208d6905aa7c7dd13de30aa945f1693
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/zq1/libmcrypt-2.4.7-19.src.rpm
      d6c0a61d874869ee3927af3b58335ff4

    SuSE-7.1:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/sec2/libmcrypt-devel-2.4.7-19.i386.rpm
      03028dbcf99e6fe167a30cd9b2e6da0f
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/zq1/libmcrypt-2.4.7-19.src.rpm
      d6c0a61d874869ee3927af3b58335ff4



    Sparc Platform:

    SuSE-7.3:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.3/sec2/libmcrypt-2.4.15-53.sparc.rpm
      ae638ffb875f53df64325e8e0a148807
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.3/zq1/libmcrypt-2.4.15-53.src.rpm
      c6bdd14b370e0ca912e8ca7615580df0

    SuSE-7.3:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.3/sec2/libmcrypt-devel-2.4.15-53.sparc.rpm
      846455cc24b212f7b7287332cababc06
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.3/zq1/libmcrypt-2.4.15-53.src.rpm
      c6bdd14b370e0ca912e8ca7615580df0



    AXP Alpha Platform:

    SuSE-7.1:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.1/sec2/libmcrypt-2.4.7-26.alpha.rpm
      3789bb0a9411d85ec4514490f342a70f
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.1/zq1/libmcrypt-2.4.7-26.src.rpm
      c8dd2a18ccb249ed384df14359ba094e

    SuSE-7.1:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.1/sec2/libmcrypt-devel-2.4.7-26.alpha.rpm
      fa61fea31359365d07ccf45a56b1ca80
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.1/zq1/libmcrypt-2.4.7-26.src.rpm
      c8dd2a18ccb249ed384df14359ba094e



    PPC Power PC Platform:

    SuSE-7.3:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.3/sec2/libmcrypt-2.4.15-89.ppc.rpm
      f75b386d8894c98fd0fa534d3560abbe
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.3/zq1/libmcrypt-2.4.15-89.src.rpm
      5a3b3ce95652b81efb738b59aec1a7e4

    SuSE-7.3:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.3/sec2/libmcrypt-devel-2.4.15-89.ppc.rpm
      6d3cea579e658b66ea62c97d4c58ce17
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.3/zq1/libmcrypt-2.4.15-89.src.rpm
      5a3b3ce95652b81efb738b59aec1a7e4

    SuSE-7.1:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/sec2/libmcrypt-2.4.7-23.ppc.rpm
      f097c1a2ce67b85cffb8f0076a6c09c3
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/zq1/libmcrypt-2.4.7-23.src.rpm
      9df0c47eb030905edeed919750aec9df

    SuSE-7.1:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/sec2/libmcrypt-devel-2.4.7-23.ppc.rpm
      dc79a537365aae51c27d60dabb2615bf
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/zq1/libmcrypt-2.4.7-23.src.rpm
      9df0c47eb030905edeed919750aec9df

____________________________________________________________________________

2)  Pending vulnerabilities in SuSE Distributions and Workarounds:

    - OpenSSL
      Update packages for the recently found weakness in the openssl package
      are available on our ftp servers. An announcement concerning this issue
      follows this announcement.

    - VNC
      VNC (Virtual Network Computing) uses a weak cookie generation process
      which can be exploited by an attacker to bypass authentication.
      New packages are currently being tested and will be available on our
      FTP servers soon.

    - w3m
      The textbased web-browser w3m does not properly escape HTML tags.
      A malicious HTML page or img alt attribute may lead to information
      leakage. New packages will be available soon.

____________________________________________________________________________

3)  standard appendix: authenticity verification, additional information

  - Package authenticity verification:

    SuSE update packages are available on many mirror ftp servers all over
    the world. While this service is being considered valuable and important
    to the free and open source software community, many users wish to be
    sure about the origin of the package and its content before installing
    the package. There are two verification methods that can be used
    independently from each other to prove the authenticity of a downloaded
    file or rpm package:
    1) md5sums as provided in the (cryptographically signed) announcement.
    2) using the internal gpg signatures of the rpm package.

    1) execute the command
        md5sum <name-of-the-file.rpm>
       after you downloaded the file from a SuSE ftp server or its mirrors.
       Then, compare the resulting md5sum with the one that is listed in the
       announcement. Since the announcement containing the checksums is
       cryptographically signed (usually using the key security@suse.de),
       the checksums show proof of the authenticity of the package.
       We disrecommend to subscribe to security lists which cause the
       email message containing the announcement to be modified so that
       the signature does not match after transport through the mailing
       list software.
       Downsides: You must be able to verify the authenticity of the
       announcement in the first place. If RPM packages are being rebuilt
       and a new version of a package is published on the ftp server, all
       md5 sums for the files are useless.

    2) rpm package signatures provide an easy way to verify the authenticity
       of an rpm package. Use the command
        rpm -v --checksig <file.rpm>
       to verify the signature of the package, where <file.rpm> is the
       filename of the rpm package that you have downloaded. Of course,
       package authenticity verification can only target an un-installed rpm
       package file.
       Prerequisites:
        a) gpg is installed
        b) The package is signed using a certain key. The public part of this
           key must be installed by the gpg program in the directory
           ~/.gnupg/ under the user's home directory who performs the
           signature verification (usually root). You can import the key
           that is used by SuSE in rpm packages for SuSE Linux by saving
           this announcement to a file ("announcement.txt") and
           running the command (do "su -" to be root):
            gpg --batch; gpg < announcement.txt | gpg --import
           SuSE Linux distributions version 7.1 and thereafter install the
           key "build@suse.de" upon installation or upgrade, provided that
           the package gpg is installed. The file containing the public key
           is placed at the top-level directory of the first CD (pubring.gpg)
           and at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/pubring.gpg-build.suse.de .


  - SuSE runs two security mailing lists to which any interested party may
    subscribe:

    suse-security@suse.com
        -   general/linux/SuSE security discussion.
            All SuSE security announcements are sent to this list.
            To subscribe, send an email to
                <suse-security-subscribe@suse.com>.

    suse-security-announce@suse.com
        -   SuSE's announce-only mailing list.
            Only SuSE's security announcements are sent to this list.
            To subscribe, send an email to
                <suse-security-announce-subscribe@suse.com>.

    For general information or the frequently asked questions (faq)
    send mail to:
        <suse-security-info@suse.com> or
        <suse-security-faq@suse.com> respectively.

    =====================================================================
    SuSE's security contact is <security@suse.com> or <security@suse.de>.
    The <security@suse.de> public key is listed below.
    =====================================================================
____________________________________________________________________________

    The information in this advisory may be distributed or reproduced,
    provided that the advisory is not modified in any way. In particular,
    it is desired that the clear-text signature shows proof of the
    authenticity of the text.
    SuSE Linux AG makes no warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect
    to the information contained in this security advisory.

Type Bits/KeyID    Date       User ID
pub  2048R/3D25D3D9 1999-03-06 SuSE Security Team <security@suse.de>
pub  1024D/9C800ACA 2000-10-19 SuSE Package Signing Key <build@suse.de>

Bye,
     Thomas
-- 
  Thomas Biege <thomas@suse.de>
  SuSE Linux AG,Deutschherrnstr. 15-19,90429 Nuernberg
  Function: Security Support & Auditing
  "lynx -source http://www.suse.de/~thomas/contact/thomas.asc | gpg --import"
  Key fingerprint = 7254 B15D B3C4 943F 485E  0BBD 8ECC D7CB C200 A213
-- 
  Swimming through the Void
  We hear the Words
  We lose Ourselves
  But we find it All
                           -- Serj Tankian (Arials Lyrics)

____________________________________________________________________________

                        SuSE Security Announcement

        Package:                openssl
        Announcement-ID:        SuSE-SA:2003:011
        Date:                   Wednesday, Feb. 26th 2003 15:20 MET
        Affected products:      7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 8.1
                                SuSE Linux Database Server,
                                SuSE eMail Server III, 3.1
                                SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7
                                SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
                                SuSE Linux Firewall on CD/Admin host
                                SuSE Linux Connectivity Server
                                SuSE Linux Office Server
        Vulnerability Type:     remote attack on encryption
        Severity (1-10):        5
        SuSE default package:   yes
        Cross References:       CAN-2003-0078

    Content of this advisory:
        1) security vulnerability resolved: openssl
           problem description, discussion, solution and upgrade information
        2) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds:
            - vnc
            - w3m
        3) standard appendix (further information)

____________________________________________________________________________

1)  problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information

    OpenSSL is an implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer and Transport
    Layer Security protocols and provides strong cryptography for many
    applications in a Linux system. It is a default package in all SuSE
    products.

    A security weakness has been found, known as "Vaudenay timing attack
    on CBC", named after one of the discoverers (Brice Canvel (EPFL), Alain
    Hiltgen (UBS), Serge Vaudenay (EPFL), and Martin Vuagnoux (EPFL, Ilion)).
    The weakness may allow an attacker to obtain a plaintext data block by
    observing timing differences in response to two different error cases
    (cipher padding errors vs. MAC verification errors).
    In order to exploit this vulnerability, the attacker has to meet certain
    requirements: The network connection between client and server must be
    of high quality to be able to observe timing differences, the attacker
    must be able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, the transactions
    must repeatedly contain the same (encrypted) plain text block (such as
    a pop password or alike), and decoding failures in the SSL layer must
    not be propagated to the application that is using the SSL connection.
    These exploitation conditions considerably reduce the security risk
    imposed by the vulnerability. However, we recommend to completely
    remedy this weakness by installing the update packages for your system
    according to the following guidelines. There does not exist any temporary
    workaround for this problem other than applying the update packages.


    Please download the update package for your distribution and verify its
    integrity by the methods listed in section 3) of this announcement.
    Our maintenance customers are being notified individually. The packages
    are being offered to install from the maintenance web.

    SPECIAL INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
    ====================================
    Please update your openssl package using the command
        rpm -Fhv <package.rpm>
    The operation of this command must not be interrupted! An interrupted
    update of the openssl package may cause large protions of your system to
    fail.
    After performing the update, it is adviseable to run the command
    "ldconfig" to update the shared library loading cache.
    After the update, running processes in your system will continue to
    use the shared libraries from the old package before the update.
    Generally, it is necessary to restart all of these processes to
    completely fix the vulnerability in your system. The command
        lsof -n 2>/dev/null | grep RPMDELETE
    can be used to find the binaries and processes that still use the old
    shared libraries. In all cases, the next reboot of the system will cause
    the old shared libraries to be completely removed from the system.
    Alternatively, a transition to runlevel 1 (single user mode) and back
    to the default runlevel will have the same effect.



    Intel i386 Platform:

    SuSE-8.1:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/i586/openssl-0.9.6g-55.i586.rpm
      7fbf4d975180a20ff8dedc8adbdecc59
    patch rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/i586/openssl-0.9.6g-55.i586.patch.rpm
      6ed4321ec536aa718189702470c33091
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/src/openssl-0.9.6g-55.src.rpm
      90fc753346dd2aff00eee4c530cea84a

    SuSE-8.0:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/sec1/openssl-0.9.6c-83.i386.rpm
      d6246b820780993cc0e2b48597743a8f
    patch rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/sec1/openssl-0.9.6c-83.i386.patch.rpm
      2d933e913a9062de6a1fa35de969d211
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/zq1/openssl-0.9.6c-83.src.rpm
      b4b887a7311e9734a14d11e1a380f76e

    SuSE-7.3:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/sec1/openssl-0.9.6b-154.i386.rpm
      d3c0f892441c09c8c5a689e2af04ba55
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/zq1/openssl-0.9.6b-154.src.rpm
      31ec962fe3549a713b9e6937190a88fb

    SuSE-7.2:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/sec1/openssl-0.9.6a-78.i386.rpm
      d14f67c34c589f168b750b18c9162508
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/zq1/openssl-0.9.6a-78.src.rpm
      2ba5a416d6ca3cb75c9aabb5a25bb532

    SuSE-7.1:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/sec1/openssl-0.9.6a-78.i386.rpm
      c6b711573555982fadd31cfa179dd9dc
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/zq1/openssl-0.9.6a-78.src.rpm
      d00df30aa6ec6a3872c58da709181879



    Sparc Platform:

    SuSE-7.3:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.3/sec1/openssl-0.9.6b-87.sparc.rpm
      6a8f19a49a698b93e740121321f59e5d
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.3/zq1/openssl-0.9.6b-87.src.rpm
      50712c3fd35042278063622ad5cc77c7

    AXP Alpha Platform:
    The packages for the 7.1-axp distribution will be published soon.



    PPC Power PC Platform:

    SuSE-7.3:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.3/sec1/openssl-0.9.6b-147.ppc.rpm
      051ef85d8e711819b2de38f55dc0023a
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.3/zq1/openssl-0.9.6b-147.src.rpm
      58631776b8fa88932eb57069a7f2878e

    SuSE-7.1:
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/sec1/openssl-0.9.6a-28.ppc.rpm
      da5e7caa177316f3016dd98497e580de
    source rpm(s):
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/zq1/openssl-0.9.6a-28.src.rpm
      b317144556c8f1890d15f304d95c5764



____________________________________________________________________________

2)  Pending vulnerabilities in SuSE Distributions and Workarounds:

  - vnc
    VNC (Virtual Network Computing) uses a weak cookie generation process
    which can be exploited by an attacker to bypass authentication.
    New packages are currently being tested and will be available on our
    FTP servers soon.

  - w3m
    The textbased web-browser w3m does not properly escape HTML tags.
    A malicious HTML page or img alt attribute may lead to information
    leakage. New packages will be available soon.
____________________________________________________________________________

3)  standard appendix: authenticity verification, additional information

  - Package authenticity verification:

    SuSE update packages are available on many mirror ftp servers all over
    the world. While this service is being considered valuable and important
    to the free and open source software community, many users wish to be
    sure about the origin of the package and its content before installing
    the package. There are two verification methods that can be used
    independently from each other to prove the authenticity of a downloaded
    file or rpm package:
    1) md5sums as provided in the (cryptographically signed) announcement.
    2) using the internal gpg signatures of the rpm package.

    1) execute the command
        md5sum <name-of-the-file.rpm>
       after you downloaded the file from a SuSE ftp server or its mirrors.
       Then, compare the resulting md5sum with the one that is listed in the
       announcement. Since the announcement containing the checksums is
       cryptographically signed (usually using the key security@suse.de),
       the checksums show proof of the authenticity of the package.
       We disrecommend to subscribe to security lists which cause the
       email message containing the announcement to be modified so that
       the signature does not match after transport through the mailing
       list software.
       Downsides: You must be able to verify the authenticity of the
       announcement in the first place. If RPM packages are being rebuilt
       and a new version of a package is published on the ftp server, all
       md5 sums for the files are useless.

    2) rpm package signatures provide an easy way to verify the authenticity
       of an rpm package. Use the command
        rpm -v --checksig <file.rpm>
       to verify the signature of the package, where <file.rpm> is the
       filename of the rpm package that you have downloaded. Of course,
       package authenticity verification can only target an un-installed rpm
       package file.
       Prerequisites:
        a) gpg is installed
        b) The package is signed using a certain key. The public part of this
           key must be installed by the gpg program in the directory
           ~/.gnupg/ under the user's home directory who performs the
           signature verification (usually root). You can import the key
           that is used by SuSE in rpm packages for SuSE Linux by saving
           this announcement to a file ("announcement.txt") and
           running the command (do "su -" to be root):
            gpg --batch; gpg < announcement.txt | gpg --import
           SuSE Linux distributions version 7.1 and thereafter install the
           key "build@suse.de" upon installation or upgrade, provided that
           the package gpg is installed. The file containing the public key
           is placed at the top-level directory of the first CD (pubring.gpg)
           and at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/pubring.gpg-build.suse.de .


  - SuSE runs two security mailing lists to which any interested party may
    subscribe:

    suse-security@suse.com
        -   general/linux/SuSE security discussion.
            All SuSE security announcements are sent to this list.
            To subscribe, send an email to
                <suse-security-subscribe@suse.com>.

    suse-security-announce@suse.com
        -   SuSE's announce-only mailing list.
            Only SuSE's security announcements are sent to this list.
            To subscribe, send an email to
                <suse-security-announce-subscribe@suse.com>.

    For general information or the frequently asked questions (faq)
    send mail to:
        <suse-security-info@suse.com> or
        <suse-security-faq@suse.com> respectively.

    =====================================================================
    SuSE's security contact is <security@suse.com> or <security@suse.de>.
    The <security@suse.de> public key is listed below.
    =====================================================================
____________________________________________________________________________

    The information in this advisory may be distributed or reproduced,
    provided that the advisory is not modified in any way. In particular,
    it is desired that the clear-text signature shows proof of the
    authenticity of the text.
    SuSE Linux AG makes no warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect
    to the information contained in this security advisory.

Type Bits/KeyID    Date       User ID
pub  2048R/3D25D3D9 1999-03-06 SuSE Security Team <security@suse.de>
pub  1024D/9C800ACA 2000-10-19 SuSE Package Signing Key <build@suse.de>

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