From bugzilla@REDHAT.COM Sun Oct 29 22:50:49 2000 From: bugzilla@REDHAT.COM To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:09:00 -0400 Subject: [BUGTRAQ] [RHSA-2000:024-02] Updated nss_ldap packages are now available. [The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory Synopsis: Updated nss_ldap packages are now available. Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:024-02 Issue date: 2000-10-27 Updated on: 2000-10-27 Product: Red Hat Linux Keywords: N/A Cross references: N/A --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Topic: Updated nss_ldap packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 6.1, 6.2, and 7. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Linux 6.1 - i386, alpha, sparc Red Hat Linux 6.2 - i386, alpha, sparc Red Hat Linux 7.0 - i386 3. Problem description: A race condition has been found in the nss_ldap package. On a system running nscd, a malicious user can cause the system to hang. 4. Solution: For each RPM for your particular architecture, run: rpm -Fvh [filename] where filename is the name of the RPM. 5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla for more info): 11187 - nss_ldap-106 exposes shadow passwords when nscd active 19923 - nss_ldap has a bug that can deadlock a machine 6. RPMs required: Red Hat Linux 6.1: alpha: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/alpha/nss_ldap-122-1.6.alpha.rpm sparc: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/sparc/nss_ldap-122-1.6.sparc.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/i386/nss_ldap-122-1.6.i386.rpm sources: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/SRPMS/nss_ldap-122-1.6.src.rpm Red Hat Linux 6.2: alpha: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/alpha/nss_ldap-122-1.6.alpha.rpm sparc: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/sparc/nss_ldap-122-1.6.sparc.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/i386/nss_ldap-122-1.6.i386.rpm sources: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/SRPMS/nss_ldap-122-1.6.src.rpm Red Hat Linux 7.0: i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/nss_ldap-122-1.7.i386.rpm sources: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/SRPMS/nss_ldap-122-1.7.src.rpm 7. Verification: MD5 sum Package Name -------------------------------------------------------------------------- d6ccb0a79d788abc6b82be62981582dd 6.1/SRPMS/nss_ldap-122-1.6.src.rpm 08d8e980347fe7d81e29e1ca27e7cb09 6.1/alpha/nss_ldap-122-1.6.alpha.rpm 4d47831ae8516106392e74f5e1f2fd02 6.1/i386/nss_ldap-122-1.6.i386.rpm f12cc2e7f9ab1c5faed9c647bfcbab03 6.1/sparc/nss_ldap-122-1.6.sparc.rpm d6ccb0a79d788abc6b82be62981582dd 6.2/SRPMS/nss_ldap-122-1.6.src.rpm 08d8e980347fe7d81e29e1ca27e7cb09 6.2/alpha/nss_ldap-122-1.6.alpha.rpm 4d47831ae8516106392e74f5e1f2fd02 6.2/i386/nss_ldap-122-1.6.i386.rpm f12cc2e7f9ab1c5faed9c647bfcbab03 6.2/sparc/nss_ldap-122-1.6.sparc.rpm 7d3dedc08a5db1c30964389a8a3493ab 7.0/SRPMS/nss_ldap-122-1.7.src.rpm 95337178e79472118cf33b0584462679 7.0/i386/nss_ldap-122-1.7.i386.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key is available at: http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg 8. References: N/A Copyright(c) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.