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Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 17:25:27 CDT

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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.

SOLUTION
 All users of the "man" package should upgrade.
 
 
 REFERENCES:
 1.http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/314700

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

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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Instructions on how to check the signatures of the RPM packages can be
found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/seguranca/politica/?idioma=en

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http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?idioma=en

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