SuSE Security Announcement - mars_nwe
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SuSE Security Announcement
Package: mars_nwe 0.99 and earlier
Date: Fri Sep 17 10:53:58 CEST 1999
Affected: all Linux distributions using mars_nwe 0.99 and earlier
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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 mars_nwe tools are vulnerable to several buffer overflows.
2. Impact
An attacker might get root access to the system.
3. Solution
Updated the mars_nwe 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:
marsnwe-0.99.pl17-29.i386.rpm 5bc19a3237653574f97559434f0cf364 (5.3)
marsnwe-0.99.pl17-54.alpha.rpm 19c2c8848ad6f4707048ab2bbf7ab5f0 (AXP)
marsnwe-0.99.pl17-54.i386.rpm 9894d90ecbfca1bcc2bd8add99b90a71 (6.1)
marsnwe-0.99.pl17-12.i386.rpm c9841dde2cbca88fe53447c3d762f510 (6.2)
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You will find the update on our ftp-Server:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/5.3/n1/marsnwe-0.99.pl17-54.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/n1/marsnwe-0.99.pl17-54.alpha.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/n1/marsnwe-0.99.pl17-54.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/n1/marsnwe-0.99.pl17-54.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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