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[TL-Security-Announce] cvsweb TLSA2000016-1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Little)
Tue Aug 1 16:18:06 2000
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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 11:08:12 -0700
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From: Joe Little <jlittle@TURBOLINUX.COM>
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TurboLinux Security Announcement
Package: cvsweb-1.90 and earlier
Date: Tuesday August 1 11:00 PDT 2000
Affected TurboLinux versions: 6.0.5 and earlier
Vulnerability Type: remote shell exploit
TurboLinux Advisory ID#: TLSA2000016-1
Credits:
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A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above. Please
update the package in your installation as soon as possible or disable the
service.
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1. Problem Summary
Current and previous version of cvsweb allow remote users to access/write
files as the default web user via the cvsweb.cgi script.
2. Impact
remote read/write access to arbitrary files owned by the default web user
is possible via this exploit.
3. Solution
Please upgrade both the cvsweb package to match the new revision
Update the packages from our ftp server by running the following command:
rpm -Fv ftp_path_to_filename
Where ftp_path_to_filename is the following:
ftp://ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/updates/6.0/security/cvsweb-1.91-3.noarch.rpm
The source RPM can be downloaded here:
ftp://ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/updates/6.0/SRPMS/cvsweb-1.91-3.src.rpm
**Note: You must rebuild and install the RPM if you choose to download
and install the SRPM. Simply installing the SRPM alone WILL NOT CLOSE
THE SECURITY HOLE.
Please verify the MD5 checksum of the update before you install:
MD5 sum Package Name
- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
a9983e6d1fa2fae00f136a0b9c1708a2 cvsweb-1.91-3.noarch.rpm
e1a178d0280d56334922b533b6413db7 cvsweb-1.91-3.src.rpm
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These packages are GPG signed by Turbolinux for security. Our key
is available here:
http://www.turbolinux.com/security/tlgpgkey.asc
To verify a package, use the following command:
rpm --checksig name_of_rpm
To examine only the md5sum, use the following command:
rpm --checksig --nogpg name_of_rpm
**Note: Checking GPG keys requires RPM 3.0 or higher.
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You can find more updates on our ftp server:
ftp://ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/updates/6.0/security/ for TL6.0 Workstation
and Server security updates
ftp://ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/updates/4.0/security/ for TL4.0 Workstation
and Server security updates
Our webpage for security announcements:
http://www.turbolinux.com/security
If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact:
rt-security@turbolinux.com
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