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Whitebox alert WBSA-2004:004-01 (CVS)

From:  John Morris <jmorris@beau.org>
To:  whitebox-announce@beau.org
Subject:  [Whitebox-announce] [WBSA-2004:004-01] Updated CVS packages fix minor security issue
Date:  Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:43:22 -0600 (CST)

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Security Advisory Synopsis: Updated CVS packages fix minor security issue Advisory ID: WBSA-2004:004-01 Issue date: 2004-01-14 Updated on: 2004-02-12 Product: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 (i386) Keywords: Cross references: Obsoletes: CVE Names: CAN-2002-0844 CAN-2003-0977 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated cvs packages closing a vulnerability that could allow cvs to attempt to create files and directories in the root file system are now available. More information is available in Red Hat, Inc's original advisory available on their site at: http://www.redhat.com/archives/enterprise-watch-list/2004-January/msg00004.html To install this new package on your White Box Enterprise Linux system use the Up2Date Network or Yum. Note: Be sure to change the default Up2Date or Yum server from the initial location to prevent undue load to the whiteboxlinux.org server, which doesn't have a lot of outbound bandwidth. The config files already have entries for mirror sites commented out. Up2Date's configuration file is at /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources Yum's configuration is in /etc/yum.conf _______________________________________________ Whitebox-announce mailing list Whitebox-announce@beau.org http://beau.org/mailman/listinfo/whitebox-announce


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