Subject: [suse-security] SuSE Security Announcement (fwd)
From: Murat Koc (muratkoc@saneg.itu.edu.tr)
Date: Wed 25 Aug 1999 - 13:22:42 EET DST
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Date: 25 Aug 1999 10:54:08 +0200
From: Thomas Biege <thomas@suse.de>
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Subject: [suse-security] SuSE Security Announcement
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SuSE Security Announcement
Package: trn-3.x and previous versions
Date: Tue Aug 25 09:28:15 CEST 1999
Affected: maybe all Unix operatingsystems using trn
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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 news reader trn uses a hardcoded temporary file, which resides in /tmp.
2. Impact
By creating a symbolic link in /tmp, files could be overwritten, if the
privileges of the user executing trn permits that operation.
3. Solution
Updated the trn package from our FTP server.
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Here are the md5 checksums of the upgrade packages, please verify these
before installing the new packages:
55cd717cfabb6ca95c5e8255c58eb514 trn-3.6-70.i386.rpm
0738e9a26aca763c2a704e76f9adedf6 trn_spl-3.6-61.i386.rpm
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You will find the update on our ftp-Server:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/n1/trn-3.6-70.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/n1/trn_spl-3.6-61.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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