From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 03:31:39 CDT

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TITLE:
Red Hat update for LPRng

READ ONLINE:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/8659/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
RedHat Linux 7.3
RedHat Linux 7.2
RedHat Linux 8.0
RedHat Linux 7.1
RedHat Linux 9

DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued updated packages for LPRng. These fix a
vulnerability in "psbanner", which can be exploited by malicious,
local users to overwrite certain files on the system.

Note: "psbanner" is not used by the default Red Hat Linux LPRng
configuration.

For more information:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/8593/

SOLUTION:
Updated packages:

-- Red Hat Linux 7.1 --

SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.1/en/os/SRPMS/LPRng-3.7.4-23.2.src.rpm

i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.1/en/os/i386/LPRng-3.7.4-23.2.i386.rpm

-- Red Hat Linux 7.2 --

SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/SRPMS/LPRng-3.7.4-28.2.src.rpm

i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/i386/LPRng-3.7.4-28.2.i386.rpm

ia64:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/ia64/LPRng-3.7.4-28.2.ia64.rpm

-- Red Hat Linux 7.3 --

SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.3/en/os/SRPMS/LPRng-3.8.9-4.1.src.rpm

i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.3/en/os/i386/LPRng-3.8.9-4.1.i386.rpm

-- Red Hat Linux 8.0 --

SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/SRPMS/LPRng-3.8.9-6.1.src.rpm

i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/LPRng-3.8.9-6.1.i386.rpm

-- Red Hat Linux 9 --

SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/SRPMS/LPRng-3.8.19-3.1.src.rpm

i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/LPRng-3.8.19-3.1.i386.rpm

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-142.html

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