[CLA-2003:620] Conectiva Security Announcement - man

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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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All packages are signed with Conectiva's GPG key. The key and instructions
on how to import it can be found at 
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/seguranca/chave/?idioma=en
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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All our advisories and generic update instructions can be viewed at
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?idioma=en

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Copyright 2003 (c) Conectiva Inc.
http://www.conectiva.com

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