November 2000 - openSUSE Security Announce

SuSE Security Announcement: netscape (SuSE-SA:2000:48)
by draht＠suse.de 30 Nov '00

30 Nov '00

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE Security Announcement Package: netscape Announcement-ID: SuSE-SA:2000:48 Date: Thursday, November 30th, 2000 19:00 MET Affected SuSE versions: 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.0 Vulnerability Type: clientside remote vulnerability Severity (1-10): 4 SuSE default package: yes Other affected systems: systems w/ netscape versions before 4.76 Content of this advisory: 1) security vulnerability resolved: netscape problem description, discussion, solution and upgrade information 2) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds 3) standard appendix (further information) ______________________________________________________________________________ 1) problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf(a)DIONE.IDS.PL> has found a buffer overflow in the html parser code of the Netscape Navigator in all versions before and including 4.75. html code of the form <form action=foo method=bar> <input type=password value=long string here> more form tags </form> can crash the browser. It may be possible for an attacker to supply a webpage that executes arbitrary code as the user running netscape. As of today, no exploit code is known to exist in the wild. SuSE provides an update package for the vulnerable software. It is recommended to upgrade to the latest version found on our ftp server as described below. The update package introduces Netscape version 4.76. NOTE: Please note that Netscape-4.76 is not available for the glibc-2.0-based SuSE Distributions SuSE-6.0 and 6.1 because Netscape doesn't provide any binaries for the glibc version in these distributions (glibc-2.0). For SuSE-6.0 and 6.1, we provide a libc5-based version of netscape-4.76 which runs smoothly on all i386-based SuSE distributions 6.x and 7.x, provided the package shlibs5 is installed. The package can be found in the update/5.3 directory on our ftp server (see below). There are no packages available for platforms other than i386. NOTE: The packages on our ftp servers date back to October 31st. Since there is no release notes or README file with equivalent content in the netscape tarball, SuSE security was not aware of the fact that this release of netscape fixes the known problems. This information can be obtained from (along with information about other bugfixes) http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/4.7/relnotes/windows-4.76.html . Please choose the update package(s) for your distribution from the URLs listed below and download the necessary rpm files. Then, install the package using the command `rpm -Uhv file.rpmŽ. rpm packages have an internal md5 checksum that protects against file corruption. You can verify this checksum using the command (independently from the md5 signatures below) `rpm --checksig --nogpg file.rpm', The md5 sums under each package are to prove the package authenticity, independently from the md5 checksums in the rpm package format. Intel i386 Platform SuSE-7.0 SuSE-6.4 SuSE-6.3 SuSE-6.2 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/xap1/netscape-4.76.glibc21.i386… 7ccebaca7df0937a3c08fc30a27af858 SuSE-6.1 SuSE-6.0 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/5.3/xap1/netscape-4.76.libc5.i386.r… 3c4f06c5fea4755083524eb135627380 ______________________________________________________________________________ 2) Pending vulnerabilities in SuSE Distributions and Workarounds: - ssh/openssh Several inconsistencies and configuration bugs have been introduced in the SuSE rpm packages for the update of openssh (SuSE-SA:2000:47) that cause the openssh software to not work as reliably as usual. The packages are about to be reworked, the openssh announcement will be reissued. - pidentd The in.identd daemon on SuSE distributions can be crashed remotely. We're working on a fix. - bash1 bash, version 1, handles temporary files in an unsafe manner that allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files as the user running a bash1 with input redirection of the "<< EOF" style. The bash1 package is not used per default in SuSE-distributions. We're working on a fix (update packages). - tcsh The paragraph above about bash version 1 applies to the tcsh as well, in all versions. The tcsh is not used by SuSE scripts. ______________________________________________________________________________ 3) standard appendix: SuSE runs two security mailing lists to which any interested party may subscribe: suse-security(a)suse.com - general/linux/SuSE security discussion. All SuSE security announcements are sent to this list. To subscribe, send an email to <suse-security-subscribe(a)suse.com>. suse-security-announce(a)suse.com - SuSE's announce-only mailing list. Only SuSE's security annoucements are sent to this list. To subscribe, send an email to <suse-security-announce-subscribe(a)suse.com>. For general information or the frequently asked questions (faq) send mail to: <suse-security-info(a)suse.com> or <suse-security-faq(a)suse.com> respectively. =============================================== SuSE's security contact is <security(a)suse.com>. =============================================== Regards, Roman Drahtmüller. - - -- - - | Roman Drahtmüller <draht(a)suse.de> // "Caution: Cape does | SuSE GmbH - Security Phone: // not enable user to fly." | Nürnberg, Germany +49-911-740530 // (Batman Costume warning label) | - - ______________________________________________________________________________ The information in this advisory may be distributed or reproduced, provided that the advisory is not modified in any way. SuSE GmbH makes no warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect to the information contained in this security advisory. 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SuSE Security Announcement: openssh/ssh (SuSE-SA:2000:47)
by draht＠suse.de 24 Nov '00

24 Nov '00

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE Security Announcement Package: openssh/ssh Announcement-ID: SuSE-SA:2000:47 Date: Friday, November 24th, 2000 16:30 MET Affected SuSE versions: 6.4, 7.0 Vulnerability Type: clientside remote vulnerability Severity (1-10): 6 SuSE default package: yes Other affected systems: systems w/ openssh versions before 2.3.0 Content of this advisory: 1) security vulnerability resolved: openssh problem description, discussion, solution and upgrade information 2) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds 3) standard appendix (further information) ______________________________________________________________________________ 1) problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information openssh is an implementation of the secure shell protocol, available under the BSD license, primarily maintained by the OpenBSD Project. Many vulnerabilities have been found in the openssh package, along with a compilation problem in the openssh and ssh packages in the SuSE-7.0 distribution: An openssh client (the ssh program) can accept X11- or ssh-agent forwarding requests even though these forwarding capabilities have not been requested by the client side after successful authentication. Using these weaknesses, an attacker could gain access to the authentication agent which may hold multiple user-owned authentification identities, or to the X-server on the client side as if requested by the user. These problems have been found/reported by Markus Friedl <markus.friedl(a)informatik.uni-erlangen.de> and Jacob Langseth <jwl(a)pobox.com>. A problem in the configure script in both the openssh and ssh package on the SuSE-7.0 distribution caused the sshd programs to not be linked against the tcp-wrapper library. By consequence, access rules for the sshd server-side service as configured in /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny were ignored. This has been reported to us by Lutz Pressler <lp(a)SerNet.DE>. We thank these individuals for their contribution. Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer(a)suse.de> found a small tmp file handling problem in the perl script `make-ssh-known-hostsŽ. A (local) attacker could trick the perl program to follow symbolic links and thereby overwriting files with the privileges of the user calling make-ssh-known-hosts. The solution for the first three problems (agent+X11-forwarding, missing libwrap support) is an upgrade to a newer package. The tmp file problem can be easily solved by hand. Please see the special install instructions below. Note: Upon public request, we also provide update packages for the SuSE-6.3 Intel distribution, even though the openssh packages was not included in this distribution. special install instructions: ===================================== To find out which package (ssh or openssh) you use, please use the command `rpm -qf /usr/bin/sshŽ. __ case openssh: Please follow the instructions below to download and install the update package. Afterwards, restart the sshd daemon: `rcsshd restartŽ. __ case ssh: before SuSE-7.0 (excluding 7.0): In the file /usr/bin/make-ssh-known-hosts, please change the line (around line 102) $private_ssh_known_hosts = "/tmp/ssh_known_hosts$$"; to read $private_ssh_known_hosts = "~/ssh_known_hosts$$"; and you are done. SuSE-7.0: Please follow the instructions below to download and install the update package. Afterwards, restart the sshd daemon: `rcsshd restartŽ Please choose the update package(s) for your distribution from the URLs listed below and download the necessary rpm files. Then, install the package using the command `rpm -Uhv file.rpmŽ. rpm packages have an internal md5 checksum that protects against file corruption. You can verify this checksum using the command (independently from the md5 signatures below) `rpm --checksig --nogpg file.rpm', The md5 sums under each package are to prove the package authenticity, independently from the md5 checksums in the rpm package format. i386 Intel Platform: SuSE-7.0 ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/sec1/openssh-2.3.0p1-0.i386.rpm 3c7b9044ffb64f9f74c904eb2b278eb2 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/zq1/openssh-2.3.0p1-0.src.rpm aebcda19518208497671e752bbdfaeb8 SuSE-6.4 ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/sec1/openssh-2.3.0p1-0.i386.rpm 04c17b0eba99c798ae401fb9aafbc7e4 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/zq1/openssh-2.3.0p1-0.src.rpm 2003ab41cfa32ef39b11b4977ef4cd1f SuSE-6.3 ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/sec1/openssh-2.3.0p1-0.i386.rpm 04c17b0eba99c798ae401fb9aafbc7e4 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/zq1/openssh-2.3.0p1-0.src.rpm 2003ab41cfa32ef39b11b4977ef4cd1f Sparc Platform: SuSE-7.0 ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.0/sec1/openssh-2.3.0p1-0.sparc.rpm 898aaaacee88777429496f1a5658076f source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.0/zq1/openssh-2.3.0p1-0.src.rpm 97868b04de04a0baafcee69ebbbe6079 AXP Alpha Platform: SuSE-7.0 ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/axp/update/7.0/sec1/openssh-2.3.0p1-0.alpha.rpm dd12c60b2744455780c976b115b26f27 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/axp/update/7.0/zq1/openssh-2.3.0p1-0.src.rpm 6df5af1a88fda4d8fc1a493e4d10bc01 SuSE-6.4 ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/sec1/openssh-2.3.0p1-0.alpha.rpm 99de4bb6f183be1b69a610744f4566bc source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/zq1/openssh-2.3.0p1-0.src.rpm aa56e311205ba58478c815760452367e PPC Power PC Platform: SuSE-7.0 ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/sec1/openssh-2.3.0p1-0.ppc.rpm 72f7c339991e54a476585012423dda62 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/zq1/openssh-2.3.0p1-0.src.rpm 749ccc55396944ad43c1977e55903958 SuSE-6.4 ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/sec1/openssh-2.3.0p1-0.ppc.rpm 59727fa055e5d835bc4e455302b1ef49 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/zq1/openssh-2.3.0p1-0.src.rpm 7e42dbad4e50a2ad9156e94cf2a93955 ______________________________________________________________________________ 2) Pending vulnerabilities in SuSE Distributions and Workarounds: Clarification: In my message (Subject: "SuSE: miscellaneous"), dated Wed, 15 Nov 2000, concerning the paragraph about runtime linking problems in gs (GhostScript) , I have stated that the problem will be fixed in future versions of the SuSE distribution. This does not touch the fact that we will of course provide fixes for the older distributions. - pine The packages (version 4.30) are on our ftp server and can be downloaded. The SuSE security announcement is pending. - netscape Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf(a)DIONE.IDS.PL> has reported a buffer overflow in Netscape's html parser code. A specially crafted html document may cause the browser to execute arbitrary code as the user calling the netscape program. The packages are available for download on ftp.suse.com. A security announcement is on the way to address the issue. - gs (ghostscript) Two vulnerabilities have been found in the ghostscript package as shipped with SuSE distributions: Insecure temporary file handling and a linker problem that could make gs runtime-link against ./libc.so.6. We're currently working on update packages. In the meanwhile, it is advised to not run gs or applications that call gs from within a world- writeable directory. - jed The text editor jed saves files in /tmp upon emergency termination in an insecure way. This problem was fixed with the release of SuSE-6.3 after a SuSE-internal code audit by Thomas Biege <thomas(a)suse.de>. The information about the existence of this bug was not communicated to the public because the editor was not very widely used at that time. We will provide update packages for the SuSE releases 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2 shortly. ______________________________________________________________________________ 3) standard appendix: SuSE runs two security mailing lists to which any interested party may subscribe: suse-security(a)suse.com - general/linux/SuSE security discussion. All SuSE security announcements are sent to this list. To subscribe, send an email to <suse-security-subscribe(a)suse.com>. suse-security-announce(a)suse.com - SuSE's announce-only mailing list. Only SuSE's security annoucements are sent to this list. To subscribe, send an email to <suse-security-announce-subscribe(a)suse.com>. For general information or the frequently asked questions (faq) send mail to: <suse-security-info(a)suse.com> or <suse-security-faq(a)suse.com> respectively. =============================================== SuSE's security contact is <security(a)suse.com>. =============================================== Regards, Roman Drahtmüller. - - -- - - | Roman Drahtmüller <draht(a)suse.de> // "Caution: Cape does | SuSE GmbH - Security Phone: // not enable user to fly." | Nürnberg, Germany +49-911-740530 // (Batman Costume warning label) | - - ______________________________________________________________________________ The information in this advisory may be distributed or reproduced, provided that the advisory is not modified in any way. SuSE GmbH makes no warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect to the information contained in this security advisory. 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SuSE Security Announcement: tcpdump (SuSE-SA:2000:46)
by draht＠suse.de 17 Nov '00

17 Nov '00

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE Security Announcement Package: tcpdump Announcement-ID: SuSE-SA:2000:46 Date: Friday, November 17th, 2000 16:00 MEST Affected SuSE versions: 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.0 Vulnerability Type: remote denial of service Severity (1-10): 6 SuSE default package: yes Other affected systems: systems using the same versions of tcpdump and the necessary libraries Content of this advisory: 1) security vulnerability resolved: tcpdump problem description, discussion, solution and upgrade information 2) clarification, pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds 3) standard appendix (further information) ______________________________________________________________________________ 1) problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information tcpdump is a widespread network/packet analysis tool, also known as a packet sniffer, used in unix/unix-like environment. Several overflowable buffers have been found in SuSE's version of tcpdump that could allow a remote attacker to crash the local tcpdump process. Since tcpdump may be used in combination with intrusion detection systems, a crashed tcpdump process may disable the network monitoring system as a whole. The FreeBSD team who found these vulnerabilities also reported that tcpdump's portion of code that can decode AFS ACL (AFS=Andrew File System, a network filesystem, ACL=Access Control List) packets is vulnerable to a (remotely exploitable) buffer overrun attack that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root since the tcpdump program usually requires root privileges to gain access to the raw network socket. The versions of tcpdump as shipped with SuSE distributions do not contain the AFS packet decoding capability and are therefore not vulnerable to this second form of attack. A temporary workaround for the tcpdump problems other than not using tcpdump in the first place does not exist. However, we provide update packages for the affected SuSE distributions. We recommend an upgrade using the packages that can be found using the URLs below. Note: Please note that there is only one source rpm package but two binary rpm packages. tcpdump*.rpm is the rpm for the tcpdump program, and libpcapn*.rpm is the packet capture library that is required by tcpdump at compile time. In order to remove the security vulnerability in tcpdump, it is necessary to update the tcpdump rpm package only. The libpcapn package with the static library is provided for consistency and compatibility because it will be generated if the binary packages are rebuilt from the source rpm. To check if your system has the vulnerable package installed, use the command `rpm -q <package name>Ž. If applicable, please choose the update package(s) for your distribution from the URLs listed below and download the necessary rpm files. Then, install the package using the command `rpm -Uhv file.rpmŽ. rpm packages have an internal md5 checksum that protects against file corruption. You can verify this checksum using the command (independently from the md5 signatures below) `rpm --checksig --nogpg file.rpm', The md5 sums under each package are to prove the package authenticity, independently from the md5 checksums in the rpm package format. i386 Intel Platform: SuSE-7.0 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/d1/libpcapn-0.4a6-279.i386.rpm f4e4a9231b695e1cf5eef0ad09871c34 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-280.i386.rpm ba711cf2fab14218752603fa5a941721 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-280.src.rpm d4c5902c50d6a321e2c4ed665fcd1962 SuSE-6.4 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/d1/libpcapn-0.4a6-279.i386.rpm a1030d64ca4ca86a08b6bee5dc9cff78 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-280.i386.rpm 12335bf0055c6a9b915044a95a544aaa source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-280.src.rpm dca26c3e5ef81f449cd43ab4d1f91b63 SuSE-6.3 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/d1/libpcapn-0.4a6-279.i386.rpm 13c90044ed57792090163a33ffb69ecf ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-280.i386.rpm 646de6c14a2d4988d0c684a42b4eef58 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-280.src.rpm 46980acd95607d4a9c61ca0f75c33fc2 SuSE-6.2 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/d1/libpcapn-0.4a6-279.i386.rpm d058e563ad10daf078f5909a6b8ff288 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-280.i386.rpm f5209f1f1433b0a55676f29451a2ef1b source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-280.src.rpm cd34cd3feedbe0568d76dd9a406cec79 SuSE-6.1 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/d1/libpcapn-0.4a6-279.i386.rpm ef454e2d23e410be82aa9f0634bcc9dc ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-280.i386.rpm 9f6ebff316039421ee00121a0e8720fa source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-280.src.rpm d1148813da9610f940ecdbd462ab2541 SuSE-6.0 Please use the package for the SuSE-6.1 distribution. Sparc Platform: SuSE-7.0 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.0/d1/libpcapn-0.4a6-279.sparc.rpm 412a7db34985555705d8d43f2853ae4e ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.0/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-280.sparc.rpm a177326150a65d78212cebba90b88201 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.0/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-280.src.rpm 49f1f0420dd84070dcd9a67452770e75 AXP Alpha Platform: SuSE-6.4 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/d1/libpcapn-0.4a6-279.alpha.rpm 096522f46ab70d92dda17b4ca33b4181 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-280.alpha.rpm 84ca9a93a2201f7046446ed07107cbbc source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-280.src.rpm 07ed654ad1693dca5fd433572b3689c9 SuSE-6.3 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/d1/libpcapn-0.4a6-280.alpha.rpm 747c22bb722da5df7fe3cfc252bdc545 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-281.alpha.rpm dbe10ebc95a2371d01df729af265bdf6 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-281.src.rpm 8f6e48e693fc465c1f60b6cee944c27c PPC Power PC Platform: SuSE-7.0 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/d1/libpcapn-0.4a6-279.ppc.rpm 140b95ffb3be2c2915327d4798b16dd0 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-280.ppc.rpm 7f71b4ac17e3ad2c071e712c137a7c28 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-280.src.rpm d9db0e99e91d8981efebafd6a539566f SuSE-6.4 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/d1/libpcapn-0.4a6-279.ppc.rpm ed8697842867cbb5457c03015c117131 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-280.ppc.rpm 782dc3faba33cf1b2d9e6ef95caf4107 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-280.src.rpm 318bf758753d9728f101de2101ad3227 ______________________________________________________________________________ 2) Pending vulnerabilities in SuSE Distributions and Workarounds: Clarification: In my message (Subject: "SuSE: miscellaneous"), dated Wed, 15 Nov 2000, concerning the paragraph about runtime linking problems in gs (GhostScript) , I have stated that the problem will be fixed in future versions of the SuSE distribution. This does not touch the fact that we will of course provide fixes for the older distributions. - pine We're still working on the packages for the version 4.30 (stability problems). - ppp The ppp "deny_incoming" problem as announced by FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-00:70.ppp-nat is FreeBSD specific and does not affect the SuSE distribution. - vixie cron Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf(a)TPI.PL> reported security problems in Paul Vixie's cron implementation that is commonly used in Linux distributions. Due to correct permissions on the directory /var/spool/cron, the SuSE cron package is not affected by the problem. ______________________________________________________________________________ 3) standard appendix: SuSE runs two security mailing lists to which any interested party may subscribe: suse-security(a)suse.com - general/linux/SuSE security discussion. All SuSE security announcements are sent to this list. To subscribe, send an email to <suse-security-subscribe(a)suse.com>. suse-security-announce(a)suse.com - SuSE's announce-only mailing list. Only SuSE's security annoucements are sent to this list. To subscribe, send an email to <suse-security-announce-subscribe(a)suse.com>. For general information or the frequently asked questions (faq) send mail to: <suse-security-info(a)suse.com> or <suse-security-faq(a)suse.com> respectively. =============================================== SuSE's security contact is <security(a)suse.com>. =============================================== Regards, Roman Drahtmüller. - - -- - - | Roman Drahtmüller <draht(a)suse.de> // "Caution: Cape does | SuSE GmbH - Security Phone: // not enable user to fly." | Nürnberg, Germany +49-911-740530 // (Batman Costume warning label) | - - ______________________________________________________________________________ The information in this advisory may be distributed or reproduced, provided that the advisory is not modified in any way. SuSE GmbH makes no warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect to the information contained in this security advisory. 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SuSE Security Announcement: bind8 (SuSE-SA:2000:45)
by draht＠suse.de 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE Security Announcement Package: bind8 Announcement-ID: SuSE-SA:2000:45 Date: Thursday, November 16th, 2000 16:00 MEST Affected SuSE versions: 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 Vulnerability Type: remote denial of service Severity (1-10): 7 SuSE default package: no Other affected systems: all systems using bind, version 8.2.2 before patchlevel 7 Content of this advisory: 1) security vulnerability resolved: bind8 problem description, discussion, solution and upgrade information 2) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds 3) standard appendix (further information) ______________________________________________________________________________ 1) problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information BIND, the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon, versions before 8.2.2p7, has been found vulnerable to two denial of service attacks: named may crash after a compressed zone transfer request (ZXFR) and if an SRV record (defined in RFC2782) is sent to the server. Administrators testing the ZXFR bug should be aware that it can take several seconds after the triggering the bug until the nameserver daemon crashes. SuSE versions 6.0 through 6.4 are affected by these two problems. The bind8 package in SuSE-7.0 is not affected because a different version of bind8 (8.2.3) was used in this distribution. By the release time of the SuSE-7.0 distribution our engineers have determined that the problems we had with stalling zone transfers under some obscure conditions were not present with the 8.2.3 release of the package. Administrators are strongly recommended to upgrade their bind8 package using the provided packages from the sources below. There is a temporary fix for the ZXFR problem (disable zone transfers) but none for the SRV record problem. For the latest information about security vulnerabilities in the bind name server consider the Internet Software Consortium bind security webpage at http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html . To check if your system has the vulnerable package installed, use the command `rpm -q <package name>Ž. If applicable, please choose the update package(s) for your distribution from the URLs listed below and download the necessary rpm files. Then, install the package using the command `rpm -Uhv file.rpmŽ. rpm packages have an internal md5 checksum that protects against file corruption. You can verify this checksum using the command (independently from the md5 signatures below) `rpm --checksig --nogpg file.rpm', The md5 sums under each package are to prove the package authenticity, independently from the md5 checksums in the rpm package format. i386 Intel Platform: SuSE-6.4 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/n1/bind8-8.2.2-139.i386.rpm c6f2242efe722aaa4320010e00ddc080 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/zq1/bind8-8.2.2-139.src.rpm ecd26bdf60d7950585649bc638a1d812 SuSE-6.3 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/n1/bind8-8.2.2-139.i386.rpm d3f51528ad2120cd3dc6517c2bc26c0a source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/zq1/bind8-8.2.2-139.src.rpm 6f1b8c1227d4876389a28d416a952713 SuSE-6.2 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/n1/bind8-8.2.2-139.i386.rpm 4d8a9f4c6e041326929bbdae97c10105 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/zq1/bind8-8.2.2-139.src.rpm 83807820676d98687797ffff6f5b425c SuSE-6.1 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/n1/bind8-8.2.2-139.i386.rpm 1694cf40b5fa41361749297c9cddbca4 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/zq1/bind8-8.2.2-139.src.rpm 8c5f727554e12a5aedb96de3db663518 SuSE-6.0 Please use the package from the 6.1 distribution. AXP Alpha Platform: SuSE-6.4 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/n1/bind8-8.2.2-139.alpha.rpm 51f61faaad78160fb3dcc68a8588c209 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/zq1/bind8-8.2.2-139.src.rpm f42c51962852f8ff14e2d6423de62aec SuSE-6.3 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/n1/bind8-8.2.2-139.alpha.rpm 4d16cecb0da4f8ed6bff9c92655b9036 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/zq1/bind8-8.2.2-139.src.rpm d8c4d1d9f0a14249151aa9d9e25f1db8 SuSE-6.1 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/n1/bind8-8.2.2-139.alpha.rpm 6a4f5b18072cca93f9064fdc802e50fb source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/zq1/bind8-8.2.2-139.src.rpm a3eec237cc642739b5b6c6eea6d197c0 PPC Power PC Platform: SuSE-6.4 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/n1/bind8-8.2.2-139.ppc.rpm 65e82b875e7f8ff7409062d502d56115 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/zq1/bind8-8.2.2-139.src.rpm fd2a6e2a29a80b997758d4245913ff51 ______________________________________________________________________________ 2) Pending vulnerabilities in SuSE Distributions and Workarounds: A new security announcement follows this advisory. ______________________________________________________________________________ 3) standard appendix: SuSE runs two security mailing lists to which any interested party may subscribe: suse-security(a)suse.com - general/linux/SuSE security discussion. All SuSE security announcements are sent to this list. To subscribe, send an email to <suse-security-subscribe(a)suse.com>. suse-security-announce(a)suse.com - SuSE's announce-only mailing list. Only SuSE's security annoucements are sent to this list. To subscribe, send an email to <suse-security-announce-subscribe(a)suse.com>. For general information or the frequently asked questions (faq) send mail to: <suse-security-info(a)suse.com> or <suse-security-faq(a)suse.com> respectively. =============================================== SuSE's security contact is <security(a)suse.com>. =============================================== Regards, Roman Drahtmüller. - - -- - - | Roman Drahtmüller <draht(a)suse.de> // "Caution: Cape does | SuSE GmbH - Security Phone: // not enable user to fly." | Nürnberg, Germany +49-911-740530 // (Batman Costume warning label) | - - ______________________________________________________________________________ The information in this advisory may be distributed or reproduced, provided that the advisory is not modified in any way. SuSE GmbH makes no warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect to the information contained in this security advisory. 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SuSE: miscellaneous
by draht＠suse.de 15 Nov '00

15 Nov '00

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- SuSE: miscellaneous 15:30 MET, Wednesday, November 15 2000 This notice addresses the latest security advisories from various Linux vendors as well as private contributors on public security forums. The issues have been collected to keep the noise on the public security forums at a reduced level. The information herein should be considered both background as well as upgrade information (please read carefully). == Topics: 1) SuSE security staff 2) packages: gpg (update information) bind8 (status: update avail, announcement pending) pine (status: testing new version 4.30) dump (status: not vulnerable) phf (status: not vulnerable) gs (status: pending) global (status: building) crontab (status: not vulnerable) vlock (status: not vulnerable) tcpdump (status: update avail, testing) tcsh (status: update+announcement pending) modules (status: more updates for older distributions) == 1) SuSE security staff SuSE welcomes security professional Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer(a)suse.de> aboard the SuSE security team. His name has already been on top of the last SuSE security announcement about the security problems in the modules package. Enlarging the capacity of the security team, Sebastian will be busy fixing security problems, auditing code and maintaining security- related software. More security announcements from him will be seen in the future. 2) packages _________________________________________________________________________ * gpg GnuPG may erroneously recognize a file/mail to be correctly signed, if there are multiple signatures and the file/mail has been modified. This bug affects all GnuPG versions prior to and including 1.0.3. It has been fixed in version 1.0.4. Updated packages are available on our German ftp server (as well as its mirrors) for the SuSE distributions 6.3, 6.4 and 7.0. Please note that the gpg packages for the SuSE-7.0 distribution have an addon, called gpgaddon. It contains implementations of cipher algorythms that require licenses in many countries due to software patents. Those gpgaddon packages are not listed below. There will not be a security announcement for this package - the privacy risk for users of the old package is considerably small. You can update your installed packages using the command rpm -Uhv <URL-to-file> where <URL-to-file> is one of the following FTP URLs to chose from. Please use the SuSE Linux mirrors as listed at http://www.suse.de/de/support/download/ftp/inland.html . The md5sums for the files on the ftp server are: i386 Intel Platform SuSE-7.0 ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/sec1/gpg-1.0.4-7.i386.rpm d0b78231c127a6423c7ca46ec9618c00 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/zq1/gpg-1.0.4-7.src.rpm a613abc7691b49e0c67e8c7dc924e3b0 SuSE-6.4 ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/sec1/gpg-1.0.4-7.i386.rpm c5b9fbe25d8cb5db4f52638c0959294d source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/zq1/gpg-1.0.4-7.src.rpm f9d351e1b86fbcfbcf0d23fae5739b20 SuSE-6.3 ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/sec1/gpg-1.0.4-7.i386.rpm c5b9fbe25d8cb5db4f52638c0959294d source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/zq1/gpg-1.0.4-7.src.rpm f9d351e1b86fbcfbcf0d23fae5739b20 Sparc Platform SuSE-7.0 ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.0/sec1/gpg-1.0.4-5.sparc.rpm 335aa6315468d4dae5753a6d14809bdd source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.0/zq1/gpg-1.0.4-5.src.rpm 796b6f901aee33aad5fd01dc874abe3c PPC Power PC platform SuSE-7.0 ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/sec1/gpg-1.0.4-7.ppc.rpm 302a7899783c9604a4ce962fcc627675 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/zq1/gpg-1.0.4-7.src.rpm 415be9ff92bcfd4a8f764207d412906d SuSE-6.4 ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/sec1/gpg-1.0.4-5.ppc.rpm 3566276b56ce13d6b977af91b5797ffc source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/zq1/gpg-1.0.4-5.src.rpm 49b75a880656a11e99fcbad16673247e AXP Alpha Platform SuSE-7.0 ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/axp/update/7.0/sec1/gpg-1.0.4-12.alpha.rpm 8a504ad8957d455ead3ff22d6ba31626 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/axp/update/7.0/zq1/gpg-1.0.4-12.src.rpm 986675ccf38f88770c079281a4175618 SuSE-6.4 ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/sec1/gpg-1.0.4-5.alpha.rpm 65f6662aea3ff8832ac932ca0a57c10b source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/zq1/gpg-1.0.4-5.src.rpm 1d3ff30fac336c8e314da9903d1ee1b9 _________________________________________________________________________ * bind8 BIND, the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon, versions before 8.2.2p7, has been found vulnerable to two denial of service attacks: named may crash after a compressed zone transfer request and if an SRV record (defined in RFC2782) is sent to the server. SuSE versions 6.0 through 6.4 are affected by this problem. The bind8 package in SuSE-7.0 is not susceptible to the problems because a different version of bind8 has been used in this distribution. A temporary workaround against the first error is to disable zone transfers if those are not needed (it is recommended for security reasons, and the default configuration in our package has zone transfers disabled.). Since the second bug can't be circumvented so easily, it is recommended to upgrade the bind8 package as soon as possible. Recognizing the urgency of this issue, the updated packages are on their way to the ftp server right now. An announcement covering the issue will follow this notice. _________________________________________________________________________ * pine The popular text-based mail user agent is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the portion of code that periodically checks for the arrival of new mail. In addition, there is an error in the header parsing code which could lead to a crash of the mail program. The authors of pine (University of Washington, Seattle, see http://www.washington.edu/pine/credits.html) have published a new version of the pine package that should fix the known problems. During testing, several instabilities of the program have been observed so that we have delayed the release of the updated version. Additional patches are being tested right now so that the release of the new version 4.30 can be expected within days. _________________________________________________________________________ * dump The Linux implementation of the ext2fs backup utility "dump" can be tricked into running arbitrary commands as root in case it is installed setuid root. dump is not installed suid root in SuSE Linux releases 6.0 through (the most recent) 7.0 because there is no convincing reason to do so. Therefore, SuSE Linux is not vulnerable to this problem with the dump program. _________________________________________________________________________ * phf cgi program proton <proton(a)ENERGYMECH.NET> has discovered a buffer overflow that can lead the phf cgi program to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user that the webserver is running under. SuSE distributions contain a cgi program that is called phf, it is included in the thttpd package. Installed under /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/cgi-bin/phf, this program is a booby trap that logs attackers intending to exploit formerly known bugs of the phf program. By consequence, SuSE distributions are not vulnerable to the buffer overflow in the phf program. _________________________________________________________________________ * gs The Ghostscript program in SuSE distributions runtime-links against shared libraries in the current working directory if a shared library with the adequate name is present. The problem is created by exporting the environment variable LD_RUN_PATH at linking time during the package compile process. Later, at runtime linking, the runtime linker ld-linux.so.2 will try to open ./libc.so.6. If this fails, the linker will continue searching the usual paths to find the library. Basically, this means that users should call gs as well as all programs using gs (such as gv or ghostview) in a directory that is only writeable by the user calling gs. It is expected that more Linux distributions (other than SuSE Linux) and possibly commercial unix vendors as well are affected by this problem. In future versions of the SuSE Linux distribution, this problem will be fixed. _________________________________________________________________________ * global htags, one program within the global package, is a hypertext generator from C, Yacc and Java source code. The "-f" option generates a cgi script as an input form backend that is vulnerable to a simple remote attack if the script is executable by a webserver. Remote attackers can run arbitrary commands under the user privileges of the webserver. The global package is not installed per default, nor is the bug present in the "installed-only" state of the package. However, if you use the program and the "-f" option of htags, it is recommended to upgrade the package as soon as possible. We are working on the update packages. _________________________________________________________________________ * crontab A tmp file vulnerability has been found in various implementations of the crontab(1) command. SuSE Linux is not affected by this problem. _________________________________________________________________________ * vlock vlock is a terminal locking program for the Linux virtual system console. It has been reported by Bartlomiej Grzybicki <bgrzybicki(a)morliny.pl> that it is possible to crash a running vlock and thus giving access to a console without a password. However, the conditions under which the failure happens are not clear. SuSE distributions are not concerned because the vlock program is not included in the distribution. _________________________________________________________________________ * tcpdump Several buffer overflows have been found in the tcpdump program, a network analysis program, according to FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-00:61.tcpdump. The vulnerability can be used to remotely crash a running tcpdump program. Since the version of tcpdump included in SuSE distributions is not capable of decoding AFS ACL packets, this particular part of the bugs does not concern SuSE Linux. Though, some intrusion detection systems rely on tcpdump's output so that a proper operation of the tcpdump program is crutial. There are updates packages available for download on our ftp server which fix the vulnerability. The security announcement is pending while we're still testing the packages. _________________________________________________________________________ * tcsh proton <proton(a)ENERGYMECH.NET> has found a temporary file vulnerability in the portion of code in the tcsh that handles redirects of the form cat << END_OF_TEXT foo bar END_OF_TEXT With this vulnerability in place, it is possible for an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user of tcsh. There is no fix for this problem other than an upgrade to a fixed version which will be available on our ftp server shortly. An advisory covering this matter will follow. _________________________________________________________________________ * modules/modutils Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer(a)suse.de> has issued a SuSE security announcement about the shell meta character expansion vulnerability in the modprobe program that is responsible for the automatic loading of kernel modules upon request. In addition to the update packages for the vulnerable versions of the SuSE distribution, we will provide updates for the older distributions (6.0-6.3) shortly, even though these distributions have not been found vulnerable to the modprobe problem. The rpm packages can be found at the usual location shortly. Regards, Roman Drahtmüller, SuSE Security. - -- - - | Roman Drahtmüller <draht(a)suse.de> // "Caution: Cape does | SuSE GmbH - Security Phone: // not enable user to fly." | Nürnberg, Germany +49-911-740530 // (Batman Costume warning label) | - - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBOhKcN3ey5gA9JdPZAQGW4QgAn6EDIQOe94u4xMc6u8z8yKv4eGaCQBk8 kCZ4l5kRizSO4z5NCc/oCChoi5ANuIIqRLG91cKixG0+4E69vgm140sSRicpfUtn oqP2ExAXLf13vgA+XmFCTnFcTG3TY7+XCiwvpdM2aU95iuPcM0TSuVTeLlkFJW6S Xkmt+58/111xFKrQ32UCOqgxsDIOV4b/Y5m+xi3XrubxdkW/eHjopZkutwXnFGVz 3rn1TEDOSRw6D41OdvWLRBQc6YdTYGdsUC4S5kMv3/Ti6/GQbjenxc3FKxWVPQaj nvGMCobk5pbi/AuarEupXsgybDZbMmA6wlr8ppUsrV80uIqLH+zmZg== =BjBa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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SuSE Security Announcement: modules
by krahmer＠suse.de 13 Nov '00

13 Nov '00

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE Security Announcement Package: modules Announcement-ID: SuSE-SA:2000:44 Date: Monday, November 13th, 2000 10:00 MEST Affected SuSE versions: 6.4, 7.0 Vulnerability Type: local root compromise Severity (1-10): 8 SuSE default package: yes Other affected systems: many newer Linux distributions Content of this advisory: 1) security vulnerability resolved: modprobe shell metacharacter expansion problem description, discussion, solution and upgrade information 2) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds 3) standard appendix (further information) ______________________________________________________________________________ 1) problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information The modules package is responsible for on-demand loading of kernel modules/drivers. The /sbin/modprobe command, when executed as a new task by the kernel-internal function request_module(), runs with the priviledges of the init process, usually root. Newer versions of the modprobe program contain a bug which allows local users to gain root priviledges. modprobe expands given arguments via /bin/echo and can easily be tricked into executing commands. In order for this bug to be exploitable, a setuid root program must be installed that can trigger the loading of modules (such as ping6). The fix for this bug consists of a change to modprobe which disables the expansion of arguments to modprobe via /bin/echo. A temporary workaround for this bug is to disable the automatic loading of modules in the running kernel by running the command (as root) /sbin/sysctl -w kernel.modprobe=/ or echo "/" > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe Please note that this temporary workaround will have to be repeated after the next reboot to become effective again. Download the update package from locations desribed below and install the package with the command `rpm -Uhv file.rpm'. The md5sum for each file is in the line below. You can verify the integrity of the rpm files using the command `rpm --checksig --nogpg file.rpm', independently from the md5 signatures below. i386 Intel Platform: SuSE-7.0 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/a1/modules-2.3.11-73.i386.rpm 9643216a1e0c147635ef62d894a9d7ad source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/zq1/modules.spm Due to a packaging error, the modules package source rpm is not available on our ftp servers yet. It will appear at the location above in very few hours. SuSE-6.4 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/a1/modules-2.3.9-63.i386.rpm d3a95b93e549aae9a462e84d179efe45 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/zq1/modules.spm Due to a packaging error, the modules package source rpm is not available on our ftp servers yet. It will appear at the location above in very few hours. Sparc Platform: SuSE-7.0 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.0/a1/modules-2.3.11-73.sparc.rpm c0ab9aab7a61cefdb2cade98c663d4e3 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.0/zq1/modules.spm Due to a packaging error, the modules package source rpm is not available on our ftp servers yet. It will appear at the location above in very few hours. AXP Alpha Platform: SuSE-6.4 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/a1/modules-2.3.9-63.alpha.rpm a88b84d7f3d79f2a47ff9e78681a0390 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/zq1/modules.spm Due to a packaging error, the modules package source rpm is not available on our ftp servers yet. It will appear at the location above in very few hours. PPC Power PC Platform: SuSE-7.0: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/a1/modules-2.3.11-73.ppc.rpm ef09b5c6438a0de8e18653e0a60d9c4c source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/zq1/modules.spm Due to a packaging error, the modules package source rpm is not available on our ftp servers yet. It will appear at the location above in very few hours. SuSE-6.4 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/a1/modules-2.3.9-63.ppc.rpm 27ba13500292c44969dd865f0c543c19 source rpm: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/zq1/modules.spm Due to a packaging error, the modules package source rpm is not available on our ftp servers yet. It will appear at the location above in very few hours. ______________________________________________________________________________ 2) Pending vulnerabilities in SuSE Distributions and Workarounds: A seperate message is being prepared to address the currently ongoing security vulnerabilites. ______________________________________________________________________________ 3) standard appendix: SuSE runs two security mailing lists to which any interested party may subscribe: suse-security(a)suse.com - general/linux/SuSE security discussion. All SuSE security announcements are sent to this list. To subscribe, send an email to <suse-security-subscribe(a)suse.com>. suse-security-announce(a)suse.com - SuSE's announce-only mailing list. Only SuSE's security annoucements are sent to this list. To subscribe, send an email to <suse-security-announce-subscribe(a)suse.com>. For general information or the frequently asked questions (faq) send mail to: <suse-security-info(a)suse.com> or <suse-security-faq(a)suse.com> respectively. =============================================== SuSE's security contact is <security(a)suse.com>. =============================================== Regards, Sebastian Krahmer ______________________________________________________________________________ The information in this advisory may be distributed or reproduced, provided that the advisory is not modified in any way. SuSE GmbH makes no warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect to the information contained in this security advisory. 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