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SuSE Security Advisory: mirror-2.8.f4 or earlier

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Date: 4 Oct 1999 21:45:26 +0200
From: “Marc Heuse” marc@suse.de

SuSE Security Announcement

Package: mirror-2.8.f4
Date: Fri Oct 01 22:21:15 MEST 1999
Affected: all Linux distributions using mirror <= 2.8.f4

A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above.
Please update as soon as possible or disable the service if you are
using this software on your SuSE Linux installation(s).

Other Linux distributions or operating systems might be affected
as well, please contact your vendor for information about this
issue.

Please note, that that we provide this information on as “as-is”
basis only. There is no warranty whatsoever and no liability for
any direct, indirect or incidental damage arising from this
information or the installation of the update package.

1. Problem Description

The mirror package is a tool to duplicate the
contents of ftp servers. A vulnerability exists when attackers can
create directory like ” ..” on the target mirror ftp server.

2. Impact

Files can be created one level above the local
target directory for the mirrored files.

3. Solution

Update the mirror package. See below.

Here are the md5 checksums of the upgrade packages, please
verify these before installing the new packages:

eaccdb63f04bd93fbed398103230d962  mirror-2.8.f4-89.i386.rpm  (SuSE 5.3)
b2830062371f924dedc12176d51ee01f  mirror-2.8.f4-89.i386.rpm  (SuSE 6.1)
f196641d03d95fd0ed5352787ba2b323  mirror-2.8.f4-89.alpha.rpm (SuSE AXP)
3ede055671a41481f9296d94ec577bd5  mirror-2.8.f4-89.i386.rpm  (SuSE 6.2)

You will find the update on our ftp-Server:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/5.3/n1/mirror-2.8.f4-89.i386.rpm


ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/n1/mirror-2.8.f4-89.i386.rpm


ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/n1/mirror-2.8.f4-89.alpha.rpm


ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/n1/mirror-2.8.f4-89.i386.rpm

Webpage for patches:
http://www.suse.de/patches/index.html

or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors:
http://www.suse.de/ftp.html
http://www.suse.com/ftp_new.html

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