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SuSE Security Announcement
Package: make-3.77-44 and earlier
Date: Wed Feb 9 17:28:43 CET 2000
Affected SuSE versions: 6.1, 6.3
Vulnerability Type: locale root compromise
SuSE default package: no
Other affected systems: all linux systems using make
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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.
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1. Problem Description
If GNU make is fed with Makefiles via stdin it creates temporary files
in /tmp without checking for links.
2. Impact
A malicous user could execute commands with the privileges of the user
executing make.
This security hole could lead to local root compromise if root passes
Makefiles to make through stdin.
3. Solution
Update the package from our FTP server.
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Please verify these md5 checksums of the updates before installing:
(For SuSE 6.0, please use the 6.1 updates)
e387c78a7046a05d3948c85519904dc6 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/d1/make-3.78.1-4.alpha.rpm
fb82691700e3238ed938b41f2933a1f0 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/d1/make-3.78.1-5.alpha.rpm
54e6b458a2e7ba096ad3b0743fef7073 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/d1/make-3.78.1-3.i386.rpm
099cdc6529b36e085b239af1c0337faf ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/d1/make-3.78.1-2.i386.rpm
e5eee118d92e61d4b17b3bef112760af ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/d1/make-3.78.1-2.i386.rpm
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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
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