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To: suse-security-announce@suse.com
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 18:12:58 +0200 (MEST)
From: thomas@suse.de (Thomas Biege)
Subject: [suse-security-announce] SuSE Security Announcement: kmulti


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                        SuSE Security Announcement

        Package:  kmulti <= 1.1.2
        Date:     Mon May 29 17:44:28 MEST 2000

        Affected SuSE versions: 6.1-6.4
        Vulnerability Type:     local root compromise
        SuSE default package:   no
        Other affected systems: all unix systems using kdemultimedia and
                                setting kscd setgid disk
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A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above.
Please update it 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 we provide this information on an "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.
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1. Problem Description

  The KDE CD player kscd is setgid disk to be able to access the device
  file of the CDROM.
  To perform some action kscd calls the unix command shell specified in
  the environment variable SHELL with the privileges of group disk.

2. Impact

  An adversary could set SHELL to his own program to get local root
  access to the system by writing directly to the raw HDD device.

3. Solution

  Update the package from our FTP server.
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Please verify these md5 checksums of the updates before installing:
(For SuSE 6.0, please use the 6.1 updates)


AXP:
817852e77080ecb444cb3ab9d0e6f52d  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/kde1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.alpha.rpm
bf3ea6a10793225d5468efa72efb13cb  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/zq1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.src.rpm
8e1cc62cf437c43eca044562637d9ea3  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/kde1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.alpha.rpm
61dc0c2588a707ec9ba1c6be00aac58c  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/zq1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.src.rpm
45e951b3b14435a1c1ab89d3e4e5df1d  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/kde1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.alpha.rpm
a70b356603227e1a0e49d0eeab934ad8  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/zq1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.src.rpm

i386:
d4c6bc55edbb9aa4da76b2d9b186e6a9  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/kde1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.i386.rpm
9ac324e3a9bb1794280d8175f5762d5d  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/zq1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.src.rpm
f8318113abdde6e2a9118db63d50a550  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/kde1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.i386.rpm
18d5fc80412db2dc70770d9b175180d9  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/zq1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.src.rpm
43f1febe8dc5502132246b8ad977db54  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/kde1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.i386.rpm
bce686afd6186c9cb9816ccf95744040  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/zq1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.src.rpm
4a14b88f9b6f80c8ffcf4b82750d7bfb  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/kde1/kmulti-1.1.2-140.i386.rpm
de787463851f38b69e576cf8de7d9309  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/zq1/kmulti-1.1.2-140.src.rpm

PPC:
3de7429a24620ca2b7e61f799478e2b8  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/kde1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.ppc.rpm
444e9ffc4fbc643deb208c45bcb31725  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/zq1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.src.rpm


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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
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