Subject: [yellowdog-updates] Yellow Dog Linux Security Advisory: YDU-20010725-12
dburcaw@newhope.terraplex.com
Date: Thu Aug 09 2001 - 16:56:56 MDT
Yellow Dog Linux Security Announcement
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Package: procmail
Issue Date: July 25, 2001
Priority: medium
Advisory ID: YDU-20010725-12
1. Topic:
procmail handles signals unsafely.
2. Problem:
"Procmail was not handling signals properly. This has been
fixed in procmail 3.21."
(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 procmail
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 procmail-3.21-0.71.ppc.rpm
4. Verification
MD5 checksum Package
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f1365e029321b75af3ca90e52744d38e SRPMS/procmail-3.21-0.71.src.rpm
22a996b9b7bb063ae97e0bd569be73f2 ppc/RPMS/procmail-3.21-0.71.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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