-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE Security Announcement Package: nfs-server < 2.2beta47 within nkita Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 02:12:50 GMT Affected SuSE versions: all Vulnerability Type: remote root compromise SuSE default package: yes (not activated by default) Other affected systems: all linux systems using the nfs-server ______________________________________________________________________________ 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-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. _____________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem Description The rpc.nfsd which is part of the nfs-server package was found to have two remote vulnerabilities. 2. Impact Via a buffer overflow, remote root access can be achieved. Write access to the local filesystem which is exported is necessary. Another security problem are improper root_sqash export handlings. 3. Solution Updated the package from our FTP server. ______________________________________________________________________________ Please verify these md5 checksums of the updates before installing: f03592bc738b6fa5cfa2f3a21250125a ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/a1/nkita-99.11.11-0.alpha.rpm c4fd6ad2029165a14e26140c56c64a06 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/a1/nkita-99.11.11-0.i386.rpm 75c7b4aa20d13f4b81428013690fbf3f ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/a1/nkita-99.11.11-0.i386.rpm ______________________________________________________________________________ You can find updates on our ftp-Server: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update for Intel processors ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update for Alpha processors or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors: http://www.suse.de/ftp.html http://www.suse.com/ftp_new.html Our webpage for patches: http://www.suse.de/patches/index.html Our webpage for security announcements: http://www.suse.de/security If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact security@suse.de ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE has got two free security mailing list services to which any interested party may subscribe: suse-security@suse.com - moderated and for general/linux/SuSE security discussions. 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