Support / Security / Advisories / Mandrakelinux 7.0 / MDKSA-2000:053

Package name: traceroute
Date: 2000-10-02
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2000:053
Affected versions: 6.1 i586 , 6.0 i586 , 7.0 i586 , 7.1 i586

Problem description

There is a bug in the traceroute program which causes segfaults and which could potentially be exploited to provide root privilege because the traceroute command is suid root. There are no known exploits currently, but users are encouraged to upgrade.

Updated packages

6.1 i586

 ff46d392fa729585f04ac4e00e9c55aa  6.1/RPMS/traceroute-1.4a5-12mdk.i586.rpm
fb516b9873feb5603e50a50575d4044f  6.1/SRPMS/traceroute-1.4a5-12mdk.src.rpm

6.0 i586

 1a4fa31d17673a14a19cc314109fea6f  6.0/RPMS/traceroute-1.4a5-12mdk.i586.rpm
fb516b9873feb5603e50a50575d4044f  6.0/SRPMS/traceroute-1.4a5-12mdk.src.rpm

7.0 i586

 016b778a737cc26eab3b6c59757e135c  7.0/RPMS/traceroute-1.4a5-12mdk.i586.rpm
fb516b9873feb5603e50a50575d4044f  7.0/SRPMS/traceroute-1.4a5-12mdk.src.rpm

7.1 i586

 956f739b513e353683f7a923ea716d06  7.1/RPMS/traceroute-1.4a5-12mdk.i586.rpm
fb516b9873feb5603e50a50575d4044f  7.1/SRPMS/traceroute-1.4a5-12mdk.src.rpm