-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE Security Announcement Package: kmulti <= 1.1.2 Date: Mon May 29 17:44:28 MEST 2000 Affected SuSE versions: 6.1-6.4 Vulnerability Type: local root compromise SuSE default package: no Other affected systems: all unix systems using kdemultimedia and setting kscd setgid disk ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 The KDE CD player kscd is setgid disk to be able to access the device file of the CDROM. To perform some action kscd calls the unix command shell specified in the environment variable SHELL with the privileges of group disk. 2. Impact An adversary could set SHELL to his own program to get local root access to the system by writing directly to the raw HDD device. 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) <p>AXP: 817852e77080ecb444cb3ab9d0e6f52d ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/kde1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.alpha.rpm bf3ea6a10793225d5468efa72efb13cb ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/zq1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.src.rpm 8e1cc62cf437c43eca044562637d9ea3 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/kde1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.alpha.rpm 61dc0c2588a707ec9ba1c6be00aac58c ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/zq1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.src.rpm 45e951b3b14435a1c1ab89d3e4e5df1d ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/kde1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.alpha.rpm a70b356603227e1a0e49d0eeab934ad8 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/zq1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.src.rpm i386: d4c6bc55edbb9aa4da76b2d9b186e6a9 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/kde1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.i386.rpm 9ac324e3a9bb1794280d8175f5762d5d ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/zq1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.src.rpm f8318113abdde6e2a9118db63d50a550 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/kde1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.i386.rpm 18d5fc80412db2dc70770d9b175180d9 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/zq1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.src.rpm 43f1febe8dc5502132246b8ad977db54 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/kde1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.i386.rpm bce686afd6186c9cb9816ccf95744040 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/zq1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.src.rpm 4a14b88f9b6f80c8ffcf4b82750d7bfb ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/kde1/kmulti-1.1.2-140.i386.rpm de787463851f38b69e576cf8de7d9309 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/zq1/kmulti-1.1.2-140.src.rpm PPC: 3de7429a24620ca2b7e61f799478e2b8 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/kde1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.ppc.rpm 444e9ffc4fbc643deb208c45bcb31725 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/zq1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.src.rpm <p>______________________________________________________________________________ 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 Our webpage for security announcements: http://www.suse.de/security If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact security@suse.de ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE has got two free security mailing list services to which any interested party may subscribe: use-security@suse.com - moderated and for general/linux/SuSE security discussions. 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