Delivered-To: suse-security-announce@suse.com
Date: 1 Oct 1999 10:46:52 +0200
From: “Thomas Biege” thomas@suse.de
SuSE Security Announcement
Package: sccw-1.x
Date: Mon Sep 27 23:06:13 CEST 1999
Affected: all Linux distributions using sccw 1.x
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-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
sccw does insufficient bounds checking, trust it’s environment
and calls insecure system functions. On a default installation sccw
is setuid root.
2. Impact
These bugs lead to local root compromise.
3. Solution
Updated the sccw package from our FTP server.
Here are the md5 checksums of the upgrade packages, please
verify these before installing the new packages:
3b2fc3d5025f1298e460ad26735af601 sccw-1.1-39.i386.rpm
373435f60b236c8d52ee535021471e4c sccw-1.1-39.src.rpm
You will find the update on our ftp-Server:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/ham1/sccw-1.1-39.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/zq1/sccw-1.1-39.src.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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