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SuSE Security Announcement
Package: traceroute-nanog/nkitb
Announcement-ID: SuSE-SA:2002:043
Date: Tuesday, Nov 12th 2002 09:30 MEST
Affected products: 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0
SuSE eMail Server 3.1
SuSE eMail Server III
SuSE Firewall Adminhost VPN
SuSE Linux Admin-CD for Firewall
SuSE Firewall on CD 2 - VPN
SuSE Firewall on CD 2
SuSE Linux Connectivity Server
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7
SuSE Linux Office Server
Vulnerability Type: local root
Severity (1-10): 4
SuSE default package: yes
Cross References: none
Content of this advisory:
1) security vulnerability resolved: - dropping root after gaining
raw socket
- a few buffer overflows
2) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds:
- ypserv
- horde
- openssh
- wrong MD5 sums in advisory SuSE-SA:2002:041
3) standard appendix (further information)
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1) problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information
Traceroute is a tool that can be used to track packets in a TCP/IP
network to determine it's route or to find out about not working
routers.
Traceroute-nanog requires root privilege to open a raw socket. It
does not relinquish these privileges after doing so. This allows
a malicious user to gain root access by exploiting a buffer
overflow at a later point.
For all products prior to 8.1, the traceroute package
contains the NANOG implementation. This package is installed by
default. Starting with 8.1, SuSE Linux contains a traceroute program
rewritten by Olaf Kirch that does not require root privileges anymore.
This version of traceroute is not vulnerable.
This is the first update for the traceroute package on the SuSE Linux
distributions 7.1 through 8.0. We have changed the version string in
the update packages to read "6.x" instead of the former "nanog_6.x" to
enable a clean comparison between version numbers. This change is
misleading in that it suggests that the package name has been changed.
Since only the version string is affected, the name of the package
remains the same.
As a workaround you can remove the setuid bit or just allow trusted
users to execute traceroute-nanog.
Become root and add the following line to /etc/permissions.local:
"/usr/sbin/traceroute root.trusted 4750"
This line will keep the setuid root bit for /usr/sbin/traceroute
and just allow users in group trusted to execute the binary.
To make the permission change and keep it permanent you have to
run chkstat(8):
"chkstat -set /etc/permissions.local"
Please download the update package for your distribution and verify its
integrity by the methods listed in section 3) of this announcement.
Then, install the package using the command "rpm -Fhv file.rpm" to apply
the update.
Our maintenance customers are being notified individually. The packages
are being offered to install from the maintenance web.
Missing packages are being built and tested and will be available for
download soon.
Intel i386 Platform:
SuSE-8.0:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/n1/traceroute-6.1.1-0.i386.rpm
afe01bf0b151eca2f42fa5737c99bdc7
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/zq1/traceroute-6.1.1-0.src.rpm
ee35e7cf554daa37a3976f473d4192f1
SuSE-7.3:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/n1/traceroute-6.1.1-0.i386.rpm
0ef0c0153532fcefdf776311503e590b
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/zq1/traceroute-6.1.1-0.src.rpm
15a9f3dba6339f0a0bb57ce17d2d9894
SuSE-7.2:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/n1/traceroute-6.1.1-0.i386.rpm
3b9acb72a3208e3e4e92c0df8ab8d46f
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/zq1/traceroute-6.1.1-0.src.rpm
a6fd1c7dc3bea4d08ef1efdcbc30fff6
SuSE-7.1:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/n1/traceroute-6.0-0.i386.rpm
1ac8de3a6e54451bae8e3068f2fbd1e9
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/zq1/traceroute-6.0-0.src.rpm
291036123b377184fdf0231d6878f57d
SuSE-7.0:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/a1/nkitb-2002.11.6-0.i386.rpm
b1105bc6916a5fdbd54db63d52ec3d81
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/zq1/nkitb-2002.11.6-0.src.rpm
3061bd5e551995d62c96da133927a612
Sparc Platform:
SuSE-7.3:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.3/n1/traceroute-6.1.1-0.sparc.rpm
638b868bedab639292d740e60cd0b266
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.3/zq1/traceroute-6.1.1-0.src.rpm
10a996ae6a2b4b739bca8f5e9d65e2da
AXP Alpha Platform:
SuSE-7.1:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.1/n1/traceroute-6.0-0.alpha.rpm
f2d241cd2331bb3de3382b338fba50b8
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.1/zq1/traceroute-6.0-0.src.rpm
949737f63fe99b4476b9c325bdc966fc
SuSE-7.0:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.0/a1/nkitb-2002.11.6-0.alpha.rpm
04a5746b70af2e99f8a31b86e16cb470
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.0/zq1/nkitb-2002.11.6-0.src.rpm
83abbae6c15ee25adc702047d41a6564
PPC Power PC Platform:
SuSE-7.3:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.3/n1/traceroute-6.1.1-0.ppc.rpm
a00ed346efdc8992b6cf92b890dcc7db
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.3/zq1/traceroute-6.1.1-0.src.rpm
8bfd655104212afc745ea998f0fe6d84
SuSE-7.1:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/n1/traceroute-6.0-0.ppc.rpm
0dc4fa991f1b6a2260af694b9b73ff1a
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/zq1/traceroute-6.0-0.src.rpm
9e60c951a66e635cab2aa46559f4aa4e
SuSE-7.0:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/a1/nkitb-2002.11.6-0.ppc.rpm
eb7d62c5e6ae971a6a96d8a475b8d9fb
source rpm(s):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/zq1/nkitb-2002.11.6-0.src.rpm
c4b5a31e58a91b5dbd0b6ba497e69046
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2) Pending vulnerabilities in SuSE Distributions and Workarounds:
- horde
There was a cross-site scripting vulnerability in horde.
Updated packages have been released for 7.3, 8.0 and 8.1.
- openssh
When the SSH daemon finds that a user's password has expired,
the user is forced to set a new password. While doing so, sshd
did not turn off the terminal echo, causing the password to
be visible on the screen as it was typed. We are in the process
of releasing updated package for 7.0 through 7.3. SuSE Linux 8.0
and 8.1 are not affected.
- ypserv
Thorsten Kukuk found a memory leak in ypserv that caused it to lose
small amounts of memory each time it processes certain malformed
requests. This could be used by an attacker to kill ypserv by repeating
this exercise until it runs out of memory.
We have released updated packages for 7.0 through 8.0. SuSE Linux 8.1
is not affected.
- wrong MD5 sums in advisory SuSE-SA:2002:041
Due to a mistake the SuSE Security Announcement SuSE-SA:2002:041
(perl-Mailtools) contains wrong MD5 sums.
A new version will be published on our security web sites soon.
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3) standard appendix: authenticity verification, additional information
- Package authenticity verification:
SuSE update packages are available on many mirror ftp servers all over
the world. While this service is being considered valuable and important
to the free and open source software community, many users wish to be
sure about the origin of the package and its content before installing
the package. There are two verification methods that can be used
independently from each other to prove the authenticity of a downloaded
file or rpm package:
1) md5sums as provided in the (cryptographically signed) announcement.
2) using the internal gpg signatures of the rpm package.
1) execute the command
md5sum