-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE Security Announcement Package: mirror-2.8.f4 Date: Fri Oct 01 22:21:15 MEST 1999 Affected: all Linux distributions using mirror <= 2.8.f4 _____________________________________________________________________________ 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. _____________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem Description The mirror package is a tool to duplicate the contents of ftp servers. A vulnerability exists when attackers can create directory like " .." on the target mirror ftp server. 2. Impact Files can be created one level above the local target directory for the mirrored files. 3. Solution Update the mirror package. See below. ______________________________________________________________________________ Here are the md5 checksums of the upgrade packages, please verify these before installing the new packages: eaccdb63f04bd93fbed398103230d962 mirror-2.8.f4-89.i386.rpm (SuSE 5.3) b2830062371f924dedc12176d51ee01f mirror-2.8.f4-89.i386.rpm (SuSE 6.1) f196641d03d95fd0ed5352787ba2b323 mirror-2.8.f4-89.alpha.rpm (SuSE AXP) 3ede055671a41481f9296d94ec577bd5 mirror-2.8.f4-89.i386.rpm (SuSE 6.2) ______________________________________________________________________________ You will find the update on our ftp-Server: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/5.3/n1/mirror-2.8.f4-89.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/n1/mirror-2.8.f4-89.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/n1/mirror-2.8.f4-89.alpha.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/n1/mirror-2.8.f4-89.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 ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE has got two free security mailing list services to which any interested party may subscribe: suse-security@suse.com - moderated and for general/linux/SuSE security discussions. 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