Yellow Dog Linux Security Advisory: YDU-20020522-7

[Dan Burcaw]

Yellow Dog Linux Security Announcement
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Package:	webmin	
Issue Date: 	May 22, 2002	
Priority:	high		
Advisory ID: 	YDU-20020522-7


1. 	Topic:

	Updated webmin packages are available.


2. 	Problem:

	Updated webmin packages, which ship on the YDL Tasty Morsels
	CD-ROM, are available.  The updates close a security problem
	which allows a remote attacker to login to webmin as any user.


3. 	Solution:

   	a) Updating via yup...
   	We suggest that you use the Yellow Dog Update Program (yup)
   	to keep your system up-to-date. The following command(s) will
   	automatically retrieve and install the fixed version of
   	this update onto your system:

		yup update webmin 

   	b) Updating manually...
   	The update can also be retrieved manually from our ftp site
   	below along with the rpm command that should be used to install
   	the update.  (Please use a mirror site)

   		ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/updates/yellowdog-2.2/ppc/
		rpm -Fvh webmin-0.970-1.noarch.rpm

4. Verification

MD5 checksum			  Package
--------------------------------  ----------------------------
4d4f04260f39924569b2ed9f2b967a56  ppc/webmin-0.970-1.noarch.rpm
8788565aecaaa005db1792f4ade577d3  SRPMS/webmin-0.970-1.src.rpm

If you wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with,
examine the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg filename


5. Misc.

Terra Soft has setup a moderated mailing list where these security, bugfix, and package
enhancement announcements will be posted. See http://lists.yellowdoglinux.com/ for more
information.

For information regarding the usage of yup, the Yellow Dog Update Program, see 
http://http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/yup.shtml