Subject: [yellowdog-updates] Yellow Dog Linux Security Advisory: YDU-20010725-11
dburcaw@newhope.terraplex.com
Date: Thu Aug 09 2001 - 16:31:03 MDT
Yellow Dog Linux Security Announcement
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Package: xloadimage
Issue Date: July 25, 2001
Priority: medium
Advisory ID: YDU-20010725-11
1. Topic:
The xloadimage package contains a possible
overflow when called by a Netscape plugin.
2. Problem:
"A buffer overflow existed in the faces reader for xloadimage. By making
a specially constructed invalid faces file, and then having the server
serve this file as a .tif file, arbitrary code could be executed on the
client computer running Netscape."
(from Red Hat's security advisory)
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 xloadimage
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-2.0/ppc/RPMS/
rpm -Fvh xloadimage-4.1-20.ppc.rpm
4. Verification
MD5 checksum Package
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c5c18c3cfb56a933ba4b4edfa5af3470 SRPMS/xloadimage-4.1-20.src.rpm
72a295a6e7e2621b094d29beae88bedf ppc/RPMS/xloadimage-4.1-20.ppc.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://devel.yellowdoglinux.com/rp_yup.shtml
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