Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:29:20 +0100 (MET)
From: Sebastian Krahmer <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]Subject: SuSE Security Announcement: syslog-ng (SuSE-SA:2002:039)
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SuSE Security Announcement
Package: syslog-ng
Announcement-ID: SuSE-SA:2002:039
Date: Thu Oct 31 11:00:00 MET 2002
Affected products: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 8.1
SuSE eMail Server III, 3.1
SuSE Linux Firewall on CD/Admin host
Vulnerability Type: remote command execution
Severity (1-10): 5
SuSE default package: no
Cross References: http://www.balabit.hu/static/zsa/ZSA-2002-014-en.txt,
CAN-2002-0972
Content of this advisory:
1) security vulnerability resolved: Buffer overflow in syslog-ng.
problem description, discussion, solution and upgrade information
2) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds:
- tomcat
- apache scoreboard
- groff
3) standard appendix (further information)
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1) problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information
The syslog-ng package is a portable syslog implementation which can
be used as syslogd replacement.
Syslog-ng contained buffer overflows in its macro expansion routines.
These overflows could be triggered by remote attackers if certain
configuration options were enabled.
Syslog-ng is not used by default on SuSE Linux, and even if installed,
the problematic options are not enabled by default. We recommend an update
of the syslog-ng package nevertheless if you use syslog-ng for logging.
To be sure the update takes effect you have to restart the daemon
by issuing the following command as root:
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng restart
We would like to thank Balazs Scheidler for offering fixes for this
problem.
Please download the update package for your distribution and verify its
integrity by the methods listed in section 3) of this announcement.
Then, install the package using the command "rpm -Fhv file.rpm" to apply
the update.
Our maintenance customers are being notified individually. The packages
are being offered to install from the maintenance web.
i386 Intel Platform:
SuSE-8.1
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/i586/syslog-ng-1.4.14-321.i586.rpm
3e18ad784051e4bbfdcb543d39dab688
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/src/syslog-ng-1.4.14-321.src.rpm
aa51cb8a4208eda4b25c6a1269d74295
SuSE-8.0
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/n4/syslog-ng-1.4.14-319.i386.rpm
183db354ceea66a48982b795436a0b57
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/zq1/syslog-ng-1.4.14-319.src.rpm
c24798a52b9893b24e4cae4b890dcf0e
SuSE-7.3
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/n2/syslog-ng-1.4.12-72.i386.rpm
9c10c9d8f3607a4f9d13ec0e31afb0b0
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/zq1/syslog-ng-1.4.12-72.src.rpm
03927a5ccff05e0171dcb0544969a162
SuSE-7.2
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/n2/syslog-ng-1.4.11-89.i386.rpm
a2540127cd93a8c99304e9dbb79b9906
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/zq1/syslog-ng-1.4.11-89.src.rpm
09d479f8a75d6fed30da3939ad1d7f39
SuSE-7.1
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/n2/syslog-ng-1.4.11-88.i386.rpm
8079c939882b955703a9001aa68e2f11
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/zq1/syslog-ng-1.4.11-88.src.rpm
a97ddbad6908356758259a19449dbed4
Sparc Platform:
SuSE-7.3
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.3/n2/syslog-ng-1.4.12-30.sparc.rpm
5dbb12897f09b73a150c3c7930431a55
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.3/zq1/syslog-ng-1.4.12-30.src.rpm
db05461d6a2b06cb527b18169c252a4a
AXP Alpha Platform:
SuSE-7.1
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.1/n2/syslog-ng-1.4.11-26.alpha.rpm
961b56ba9ed92a79f8c986c92c64a5d7
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.1/zq1/syslog-ng-1.4.11-26.src.rpm
914b26fba99632bf4b5e86dd852927ac
PPC Power PC Platform:
SuSE-7.3
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.3/n2/syslog-ng-1.4.12-57.ppc.rpm
8bbb6ab7c32def35ef39e926b089c2bc
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.3/zq1/syslog-ng-1.4.12-57.src.rpm
85527a7be7d81d739a55be1241cc1b3b
SuSE-7.1
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/n2/syslog-ng-1.4.11-30.ppc.rpm
3e923a2fc855031eba588d5db83a12f0
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/zq1/syslog-ng-1.4.11-30.src.rpm
8cdd6e6279b2586b639cfbd0d424a052
______________________________________________________________________________
2) Pending vulnerabilities in SuSE Distributions and Workarounds:
- tomcat/jakarta
Remote attackers can obtain the sourcecode of JSP files on unpatched
servers. This has been fixed in the new tomcat packages. The README.SuSE
file of the tomcat package contains further information regarding secure
configuration of the tomcat server. To ensure a certain level of security
we recommend to disable the invoker servlet.
- apache (CAN-2002-0839)
Prior to Apache 1.3.27, the shared memory segment containing the
"score board" was writable by user "wwwrun". This meant that users
able to install CGI scripts etc in a location where they will be
executed by apache were able to modify the contents of this
scoreboard. This can be exploited to cause apache to send the
SIGUSR1 signal to arbitrary processes or arbitrarily spawn new apache
children. This update package contains a patch fixing this problem.
- groff
Someone hyped a format string bug in pic (which is part of the groff
package) already known since August 2001. Fixes have been pusblished
at about the same time. The groff packages in SuSE products have the
fix for this problem since SLES7 (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Version
7), appeared in August 2001, and all newer products.
_____________________________________________________________________________
3) standard appendix: authenticity verification, additional information
- Package authenticity verification:
SuSE update packages are available on many mirror ftp servers all over
the world. While this service is being considered valuable and important
to the free and open source software community, many users wish to be
sure about the origin of the package and its content before installing
the package. There are two verification methods that can be used
independently from each other to prove the authenticity of a downloaded
file or rpm package:
1) md5sums as provided in the (cryptographically signed) announcement.
2) using the internal gpg signatures of the rpm package.
1) execute the command
md5sum <name-of-the-file.rpm>
after you downloaded the file from a SuSE ftp server or its mirrors.
Then, compare the resulting md5sum with the one that is listed in the
announcement. Since the announcement containing the checksums is
cryptographically signed (usually using the key [email protected]),
the checksums show proof of the authenticity of the package.
We disrecommend to subscribe to security lists which cause the
email message containing the announcement to be modified so that
the signature does not match after transport through the mailing
list software.
Downsides: You must be able to verify the authenticity of the
announcement in the first place. If RPM packages are being rebuilt
and a new version of a package is published on the ftp server, all
md5 sums for the files are useless.
2) rpm package signatures provide an easy way to verify the authenticity
of an rpm package. Use the command
rpm -v --checksig <file.rpm>
to verify the signature of the package, where <file.rpm> is the
filename of the rpm package that you have downloaded. Of course,
package authenticity verification can only target an un-installed rpm
package file.
Prerequisites:
a) gpg is installed
b) The package is signed using a certain key. The public part of this
key must be installed by the gpg program in the directory
~/.gnupg/ under the user's home directory who performs the
signature verification (usually root). You can import the key
that is used by SuSE in rpm packages for SuSE Linux by saving
this announcement to a file ("announcement.txt") and
running the command (do "su -" to be root):
gpg --batch; gpg < announcement.txt | gpg --import
SuSE Linux distributions version 7.1 and thereafter install the
key "[email protected]" upon installation or upgrade, provided that
the package gpg is installed. The file containing the public key
is placed at the top-level directory of the first CD (pubring.gpg)
and at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/pubring.gpg-build.suse.de .
- SuSE runs two security mailing lists to which any interested party may
subscribe:
[email protected]
- general/linux/SuSE security discussion.
All SuSE security announcements are sent to this list.
To subscribe, send an email to
<[email protected]>.
[email protected]
- SuSE's announce-only mailing list.
Only SuSE's security announcements are sent to this list.
To subscribe, send an email to
<[email protected]>.
For general information or the frequently asked questions (faq)
send mail to:
<[email protected]> or
<[email protected]> respectively.
SuSE's security contact is <[email protected]> or <[email protected]>.
The <[email protected]> public key is listed below.
______________________________________________________________________________
The information in this advisory may be distributed or reproduced,
provided that the advisory is not modified in any way. In particular,
it is desired that the clear-text signature shows proof of the
authenticity of the text.
SuSE Linux AG makes no warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect
to the information contained in this security advisory.
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