Re: aaa_base still vulnerable after upgrade

[marc () SUSE DE (Marc Heuse)]

> * Marc Heuse (marc () suse de) [2000-04-29 16:28]:
> > ______________________________________________________________________________
> >
> >                         SuSE Security Announcement
> >
> >         Package: aaabase < 2000.1.3
> >         Date:    Sat, 29 Apr 2000 14:03:28 GMT
> >
> >         Affected SuSE versions: all
> >         Vulnerability Type:     remove any local file(s)
> >                                 executing attacker supplied commands as non-root
>
> > 350cabc140a177dfa1909d356c982647  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/a1/aaa_base-99.9.8-0.i386.rpm
>
> Note that after applying this non-fix, SuSE 6.2 remains vulnerable (as
> it's not an update and the 99.9.8 version _IS_ vulnerable).
>
> Isn't it embarrassing to announce fixes which don't even touch the
> _vulnerable_ packages?

it is true that the rpm does not fix the problem. the reason: the security
update rpm building failed for 6.2 for unknown reason, which will be fixed.
The updates for 6.3 and 6.4 do work and fix this and another security
problem.
You can see that easily by a look at the filenames:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/a1/aaa_base-2000.1.3-0.alpha.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/a1/aaa_base-99.9.8-0.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/a1/aaa_base-2000.1.3-0.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/a1/aaa_base-2000.4.27-1.i386.rpm

the update for 6.2 is a different - and old - rpm ...
We will provide the correct 6.2 rpm asap.

> It expresses that SuSE still are not familiar with security, and they
> do not regularly audit their programs for security issues.

thank you very much, but I think it is completely the other way around.

> touch "/tmp/x /etc/rc.config"

btw have you ever tried out this command? It won't work. A filename is not
allowed to have a slash in it's name ...

Greets,
        Marc

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