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From: secureconectiva.com.br
Date: Tue Sep 11 2001 - 16:32:28 CDT

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CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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PACKAGE : uucp
SUMMARY : Local vulnerability in the uucp package
DATE : 2001-09-11 18:31:00
ID : CLA-2001:425
RELEVANT
RELEASES : 4.0, 4.0es, 4.1, 4.2, 5.0, prg graficos, ecommerce, 5.1, 6.0, 7.0

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DESCRIPTION
UUCP is a Unix to Unix transfer mechanism. It is used primarily
for remote sites to download and upload email and news files to local
machines.

zen-parse found[1] a vulnerability in the command-line argument
handling of uucp which can be exploited by a local user to obtain
uid/gid uucp.

REFERENCES
1. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/212892

SOLUTION
All users with the uucp package installed should upgrade.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS
Users of Conectiva Linux version 6.0 or higher may use apt to perform
upgrades of RPM packages:
- add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list if it is not there yet
(you may also use linuxconf to do this):

rpm [cncbr] ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br 6.0/conectiva updates

(replace 6.0 with the correct version number if you are not running CL6.0)

- 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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