SuSE Security Announcement: traceroute | Linux Today

SuSE Security Announcement: traceroute

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 16, 2000

Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:16:07 +0200 (MEST)
From: Roman Drahtmueller draht@suse.de
To: suse-security-announce@suse.de
Subject: [suse-security-announce] SuSE Security Announcement:
traceroute (SuSE-SA:2000:041)


                        SuSE Security Announcement

        Package:                traceroute
        Announcement-ID:        SuSE-SA:2000:041
        Date:                   Monday, October 16th, 2000 16:10 MEST
        Affected SuSE versions: 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.0
        Vulnerability Type:     local root compromise
        Severity (1-10):        6
        SuSE default package:   yes
        Other affected systems: Linux systems using the NANOG traceroute

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

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

The security problem in the traceroute program as shipped with
SuSE Linux distributions is completely different from the one
reported on security mailing lists a few days ago (`traceroute -g 1
-g 1′) by Pekka Savola . SuSE distributions do not contain this
particular traceroute implementation. The problem in our traceroute
was discovered independently and reported to us by H D Moore
hdm@secureaustin.com. The
problem in the implementation of traceroute that we ship is a
format string parsing bug in a routine that can be used to
terminate a line in traceroute’s output to easily embed the program
in cgi scripts as used for web frontends for traceroute. Using a
specially crafted sequence of characters on the commandline, it is
possile to trick the traceroute program into running arbitrary code
as root.

If you want to temporarily work around this security
vulnerability, you can disable traceroute for normal users by
clearing the suid bit on the file /usr/sbin/traceroute: chmod -s
/usr/sbin/traceroute . Do not forget to change the respective line
in /etc/permissions to read:

        /usr/sbin/traceroute                   root.root        755

We have prepared update packages on our ftp server that eliminate
the vulnerability in the traceroute program. Note that the
traceroute program is contained in the nkita or the nkitb package,
depending on the distribution version.

Download the update package from locations described below and
install the package with the command `rpm -Fhv file.rpm’. The
md5sum for each file is in the line below. You can verify the
integrity of the rpm files using the command
`rpm –checksig –nogpg file.rpm’,
independently from the md5 signatures below.

i386 Intel Platform:

SuSE-7.0

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/a1/nkitb-2000.10.4-0.i386.rpm

6c8f713a071a96c287942f880cd5919c
source rpm:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/zq1/nkitb-2000.10.4-0.src.rpm

c01db9ee70a9ac01cba1bace93cfdd16

SuSE-6.4

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/a1/nkitb-2000.7.11-0.i386.rpm

118075b7fc295be86b3659bf9b3fa778
source rpm:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/zq1/nkitb-2000.10.4-0.src.rpm

61aa9e2e4272606d2bd70828a72c957c

SuSE-6.3

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/n1/nkita-2000.10.4-0.i386.rpm

6c5932e4083de6f499e4c77fcadbffc1
source rpm:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/zq1/nkita-2000.10.4-0.src.rpm

9debb8804293384057d69254614a1496

SuSE-6.2

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/n1/nkita-2000.10.4-0.i386.rpm

49269283c6d39a234f61303b2e918413
source rpm:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/zq1/nkita-2000.10.4-0.src.rpm

1cc00eb9b37b37a51fc249db3b51f6e1

SuSE-6.1

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/n1/nkita-2000.10.4-0.i386.rpm

2fe1c6d70fcf1272da95f33ad7ad1010
source rpm:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/zq1/nkita-2000.10.4-0.src.rpm

74d6f2e623b7fcac1b0881b1bfbe0880

SuSE-6.0
Please use the update packages from the 6.1 distribution.

Sparc Platform:

SuSE-7.0

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.0/a1/nkitb-2000.10.4-0.sparc.rpm

e9bc3512b6182f540e74308c02d81f65
source rpm:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.0/zq1/nkitb-2000.10.4-0.src.rpm

8fba03e9cef63ae076b10fb61c800e39

AXP Alpha Platform:

SuSE-6.4

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/a1/nkitb-2000.10.4-0.alpha.rpm

7850969c7b3beaf3fd1ce8b2a9246be0
source rpm:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/zq1/nkitb-2000.10.4-0.src.rpm

6e5a964177b6cf87524119c747f0220b

SuSE-6.3

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/n1/nkita-2000.10.4-0.alpha.rpm

6440a6a7da903829cff57a5f8c7cda91
source rpm:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/zq1/nkita-2000.10.4-0.src.rpm

53bf05462378c384e8a46f3c6c368c67

PPC Power PC Platform:

SuSE-7.0

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/a1/nkitb-2000.10.5-0.ppc.rpm

407d1c6731228f5d3e9addd108d31224

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/zq1/nkitb-2000.10.5-0.src.rpm

8fba03e9cef63ae076b10fb61c800e39

SuSE-6.4

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/a1/nkitb-2000.10.4-0.ppc.rpm

c432a5b8d37640be6e325ef9603f9cba
source rpm:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/zq1/nkitb-2000.10.4-0.src.rpm

edf24c1989c85616d1caf53872e61f17


2) Pending vulnerabilities in SuSE Distributions and
Workarounds:

A set of security announcements is following this advisory.


3) standard appendix:

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 annoucements 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.


Regards,
Roman Drahtmüller.
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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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