-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
______________________________________________________________________________
SuSE Security Announcement
Package: nkitb < 2000.7.11-0
Date: Fri Jul 14 14:38:37 CEST 2000
Affected SuSE versions: 6.1-6.4
Vulnerability Type: (possible) remote root compromise
SuSE default package: yes
Other affected systems: all linux systems using this package
______________________________________________________________________________
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 standard ftp server does directly pass untrusted data from a
DNS server to the setproctitle() function in a unsecure manner.
2. Impact
It may be possible for an attacker to modify his/her DNS record
to execute abitrary machine code as root while connecting to
the standard ftp daemon.
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)
AXP:
77ee118ac0790b775c08cecf28b3f5c3 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/a1/nkitb-2000.7.11-1.alpha.rpm
5eac90efb3c82a948b7843a8d29b1c65 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/a1/nkitb-2000.7.11-0.alpha.rpm
i386:
c85b8c047395f87a61fe7ef1938facd6 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/a1/nkitb-2000.7.11-0.i386.rpm
9fec7f48504f7c4134ac1ae78ee99060 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/a1/nkitb-2000.7.11-0.i386.rpm
34540a50d4a562b02fbb4bc56f23e1b6 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/a1/nkitb-2000.7.11-0.i386.rpm
118075b7fc295be86b3659bf9b3fa778 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/a1/nkitb-2000.7.11-0.i386.rpm
PPC:
9ab22ed85cf0efb875c0c4f8fc878c3d ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.3/a1/nkitb-2000.7.11-0.ppc.rpm
61608e1f8e8bd4f20d9f47bea6a70740 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/a1/nkitb-2000.7.11-0.ppc.rpm
______________________________________________________________________________
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 runs 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. All SuSE security
announcements are sent to this list.
use-security-announce@suse.com - SuSE's announce-only mailing list.
Only SuSE's security annoucements are sent
to this list.
To subscribe to the list, send a message to: