__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN SGI Advanced Linux Environment 3 Security Update #33 [SGI Security Advisory 20050401-01-U] April 7, 2005 20:00 GMT Number P-171 [REVISED 12 Apr 2005] [REVISED 13 Apr 2005] [REVISED 02 Jun 2005] [REVISED 10 Jun 2005] [REVISED 14 Jun 2005] [REVISED 15 Jun 2005] [REVISED 22 Jul 2005] [REVISED 12 Aug 2005] [REVISED 15 Aug 2005] ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: SGI release fix for potential security issues. PLATFORM: Red Hat Desktop (v. 3, 4) Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 2.1, 3, 4) Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 2.1, 3, 4) Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 2.1, 3, 4) Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for the Itanium Processor Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody SPARC Platform SEAM 1.0 (for Solaris 7) without patch 110057-08 SEAM 1.0.1 (for Solaris 8) without patch 110060-19 SEAM 1.0.2 (for Solaris 9) without patch 116462-04 Solaris 7 without patch 119519-01 Solaris 8 without patch 110668-05 Solaris 9 without patch 119433-01 Solaris 10 without patch 118560-01 x86 Platform SEAM 1.0 (for Solaris 7) without patch 110058-08 SEAM 1.0.1 (for Solaris 8) without patch 110061-18 SEAM 1.0.2 (for Solaris 9) without patch 119796-02 Solaris 7 without patch 119520-01 Solaris 8 without patch 110669-05 Solaris 9 without patch 119434-01 Solaris 10 without patch 118561-01 DAMAGE: SGI released Patch 10159, which includes updated SGI ProPack 3 Service Pack 4 & 5 RPMs for the SGI Altix family of systems. SOLUTION: ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. The highest of these vulnerabilities ASSESSMENT: involves Kerberos 5 telnet client, which may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as the context of the user running the client. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-171.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.sgi.com/support/security/advisories.html ADDITIONAL LINKS: Red Hat Security Advisorys: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-348.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-344.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-354.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-330.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-331.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-327.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-021.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-198.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-415.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-415.html Debian Security Advisory DSA-707-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-707 Debian Security Advisory DSA-731-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-731 Sun Alert ID: 101671 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26 -57761-1&searchclause=%22category:security%22%20%22 availability,%20security%22 Sun Alert ID: 101665 http://www.sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey= 1-26-101665-1&searchclause=%22category:security%22%20% 22availability,%20security%22 Debian Security Advisory DSA-765-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-765 Sun Alert ID: 101864 http://www.sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101864-1&searchclause=101864 SGI Security Advisory Number 20050702-01-U ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20050702-01-U.asc CVE/CAN: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CAN-2004-0803 CAN-2004-0804 CAN-2004-0886 CAN-2004-0888 CAN-2004-1125 CAN-2005-0468 CAN-2005-0469 CAN-2005-0605 CAN-2005-0709 CAN-2005-0710 CAN-2005-0711 CAN-2005-0891 ______________________________________________________________________________ REVISION HISTORY: 04/12/2005 - revised to add a link to Red Hat RHSA-2005:021-09. 04/13/2005 - revised to add a link to Debian Security Advisory DSA-707-1 for Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody. 06/02/2005 - revised to add a link to Debian Security Advisory DSA-731 that provides updated packages for the telnet client vulnerabilities. 06/10/2005 - revised to add a link to Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2005:198-35. 06/14/2005 - added a link Sun Alert ID: 101671 and Sun Alert ID: 101665. 06/15/2005 - added a link to Red Hat RHSA-2005:415-06 and Red Hat RHSA-2005:504-06. 07/22/2005 - revised to add a link to Debian Security Advisory DSA-765-1 for Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody). 08/12/2005 - added a link to Sun Alert ID: 101864 08/15/2005 - revised to add a link to SGI Security Update #43 that provides patches for SGI ProPack 3 Service Pack 6 for SGI Altix family of systems. [***** Start SGI Security Advisory 20050401-01-U *****] ______________________________________________________________________________ SGI Security Advisory Title : SGI Advanced Linux Environment 3 Security Update #33 Number : 20050401-01-U Date : April 6, 2005 Fixed in : Patch 10159 for SGI ProPack 3 Service Pack 4 & 5 ______________________________________________________________________________ SGI provides this information freely to the SGI user community for its consideration, interpretation, implementation and use. SGI recommends that this information be acted upon as soon as possible. SGI provides the information in this Security Advisory on an "AS-IS" basis only, and disclaims all warranties with respect thereto, express, implied or otherwise, including, without limitation, any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall SGI be liable for any loss of profits, loss of business, loss of data or for any indirect, special, exemplary, incidental or consequential damages of any kind arising from your use of, failure to use or improper use of any of the instructions or information in this Security Advisory. ______________________________________________________________________________ -------------- --- Update --- -------------- SGI has released Patch 10159 - SGI Advanced Linux Environment 3 Security Update #33, which includes updated SGI ProPack 3 Service Pack 4 & 5 RPMs for the SGI Altix family of systems, in response to the following security issues: mysql-server security update http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-348.html gtk2 security update http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-344.html tetex security update http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-354.html krb5 security update http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-330.html XFree86 security update http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-331.html telnet security update http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-327.html Patch 10159 is available from http://support.sgi.com/ The individual RPMs from Patch 10159 are available from: ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sgi_propack/download/3/updates/RPMS ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sgi_propack/download/3/updates/SRPMS ------------- --- Links --- ------------- SGI Security Advisories can be found at: http://www.sgi.com/support/security/ and ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/ Red Hat Security and Updates http://www.redhat.com/security/ SGI Advanced Linux Environment security updates can found on: ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sgi_propack/download/ SGI patches can be found at the following patch servers: http://support.sgi.com/ The primary anonymous FTP site for SGI security advisories and IRIX security patches is ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/ ----------------------------------------- --- SGI Security Information/Contacts --- ----------------------------------------- If there are questions about this document, email can be sent to security-info@sgi.com. ------oOo------ SGI provides security information and patches for use by the entire SGI community. 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