Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:15:49 +0100
From: Thomas Biege thomas@SUSE.DE
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Package: make-3.77-44 and earlier
Date: Wed Feb 9 17:28:43 CET 2000
Affected SuSE versions: 6.1, 6.3
Vulnerability Type: locale root compromise
SuSE default package: no
Other affected systems: all linux systems using make
A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above.
Please update it 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 we provide this information on an “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
If GNU make is fed with Makefiles via stdin it creates temporary
files in /tmp without checking for links.
2. Impact
A malicous user could execute commands with the privileges of
the user executing make. This security hole could lead to local
root compromise if root passes Makefiles to make through stdin.
3. Solution
Update the package from our FTP server.
Please verify these md5 checksums of the updates before
installing: (For SuSE 6.0, please use the 6.1 updates)
e387c78a7046a05d3948c85519904dc6
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/d1/make-3.78.1-4.alpha.rpm
fb82691700e3238ed938b41f2933a1f0
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/d1/make-3.78.1-5.alpha.rpm
54e6b458a2e7ba096ad3b0743fef7073
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/d1/make-3.78.1-3.i386.rpm
099cdc6529b36e085b239af1c0337faf
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/d1/make-3.78.1-2.i386.rpm
e5eee118d92e61d4b17b3bef112760af
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/d1/make-3.78.1-2.i386.rpm
You can find updates on our ftp-Server:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update
for Intel processors
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update
for Alpha processors
or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors:
http://www.suse.de/ftp.html
http://www.suse.com/ftp_new.html
Our webpage for patches:
http://www.suse.de/patches/index.html
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http://www.suse.de/security
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