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SuSE Security Announcement
Package: pbpg-1.x
Date: Tue Sep 21 00:35:49 MEST 1999
Affected: all Linux distributions using pbpg
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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.
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1. Problem Description
The /usr/bin/pg and /usr/bin/pb tools can be used to read any file on the
system.
2. Impact
An attacker can read e.g the /etc/shadow file or private email.
3. Solution
Updated the pbgp package from our FTP server.
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Here are the md5 checksums of the upgrade packages, please verify these
before installing the new packages:
a3591927cdb148abdc32b677fa5caa33 pbpg-1.2-0.i386.rpm
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You will find the update on our ftp-Server:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/ham1/pbpg-1.2-0.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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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 2048/3D25D3D9 1999/03/06 SuSE Security Team
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thomas@suse.de