Gentoo Archives: gentoo-announce

From: Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@g.o>
To: gentoo-announce@g.o
Subject: GLSA: syslinux
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 08:10:56
Message-Id: 20030217143232.3A8BE5764@mail2.tamperd.net
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5 GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200302-06
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8 PACKAGE : syslinux
9 SUMMARY : security issues in installer
10 DATE : 2003-02-17 14:40 UTC
11 EXPLOIT : local
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15 - From syslinux changelog:
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17 "Security flaws have been found in the SYSLINUX installer when running
18 setuid root. Rewrite the SYSLINUX installer so it uses mtools instead.
19 It therefore now requires mtools (specifically mcopy and mattrib) to
20 exist on your system, but it will not require root privileges and
21 SHOULD NOT be setuid."
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23 SOLUTION
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25 It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
26 sys-apps/syslinux upgrade to syslinux-2.02 as follows:
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28 emerge sync
29 emerge -u syslinux
30 emerge clean
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