4367060 1999-10-05 21:24 /145 rader/ Postmaster
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Ärende: SuSE Security Announcement - mirror
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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 21:45:26 +0200
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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
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
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