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Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 2:25 PM
Subject: [CLA-2003:620] Conectiva Security Announcement - man


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> CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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> PACKAGE   : man
> SUMMARY   : Local vulnerability
> DATE      : 2003-04-07 19:22:00
> ID        : CLA-2003:620
> RELEVANT
> RELEASES  : 6.0, 7.0, 8
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> DESCRIPTION
>  The man package, which includes the utilities man, apropos, and
>  whatis is used to read most of the documentation available on a Linux
>  system.
>
>  Jack Lloyd found[1] a local vulnerability in the man utility. Because
>  of a problem with a value returned by the my_xsprintf() function, man
>  could try to execute a program called "unsafe" when reading a manpage
>  file with certain characteristics. If an attacker can put a malicious
>  executable file called "unsafe" in the system PATH and let a user
>  open a specially created manpage, it could run arbitrary commands
>  with the privileges of this user.
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> SOLUTION
>  All users of the "man" package should upgrade.
>
>
>  REFERENCES:
>  1.http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/314700
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>
> UPDATED PACKAGES
> ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/RPMS/man-1.5l-1U60_1cl.i386.rpm
> ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/6.0/SRPMS/man-1.5l-1U60_1cl.src.rpm
> ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/man-1.5l-1U70_1cl.i386.rpm
> ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/SRPMS/man-1.5l-1U70_1cl.src.rpm
> ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/man-1.5l-1U80_1cl.i386.rpm
> ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/SRPMS/man-1.5l-1U80_1cl.src.rpm
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>
> ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS
>  The apt tool can be used to perform RPM packages upgrades:
>
>  - run:                 apt-get update
>  - after that, execute: apt-get upgrade
>
>  Detailed instructions reagarding the use of apt and upgrade examples
>  can be found at
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/#apt?idioma=en
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> found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/seguranca/politica/?idioma=en
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> All our advisories and generic update instructions can be viewed at
> http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?idioma=en
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