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Red Hat 6.0 RHSA-1999:015-01 Moderate: KDE Security Fixes Available

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Calendar Grey December 7, 1999
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A recent KDE update for Red Hat 6.0 resolves vulnerabilities and concerns detected in the original RPM packages. Users should upgrade for better security and stability
New KDE RPMs are available for Red Hat Linux 6.0

Solution



Upgrade to KDE 1.1.1 final, which fixes a number of bugs present in

the previous release and contains additional patches to correct

security holes in kmail and kvt.


For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:


rpm -Uvh FILENAME


where filename is the name of the RPM.



9. Verification:



These packages are also PGP signed by Red Hat Inc. for security. Our

key is available at:


You can verify each package with the following command:


rpm --checksig


If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or

tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command:


rpm --checksig --nopgp

Summary

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix security fix moderate severity KDE update RPM upgrade

References

This URL describes the kmail security hole.


Package List


Severity
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Topic

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix security fix moderate severity KDE update RPM upgrade

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Linux 6.0, all architectures

4. Obsoleted by:

None

5. Conflicts with:

None

6. RPMs required:

Intel:

kdeadmin-

1.1.2-3.i386.rpm

kdebase-

1.1.2-11.i386.rpm

kdegames-

1.1.2-2.i386.rpm

kdegraphics-1.1.2-2.i386.rpm

kdelibs-

1.1.2-9.i386.rpm

kdemultimedia-1.1.2-3.i386.rpm

kdenetwork-1.1.2-4.i386.rpm

kdesupport-1.1.2-3.i386.rpm

kdetoys-

1.1.2-2.i386.rpm

kdeutils-

1.1.2-2.i386.rpm

korganizer-1.1.1-2.i386.rpm

kpilot-

3.1b9-3.i386.rpm

Alpha:

kdeadmin-1.1.2-3.alpha.rpm

kdebase-1.1.2-11.alpha.rpm

kdegames-1.1.2-2.alpha.rpm

kdegraphics-1.1.2-2.alpha.rpm

kdelibs-

1.1.2-9.alpha.rpm

kdemultimedia-1.1.2-3.alpha.rpm

kdenetwork-1.1.2-4.alpha.rpm

kdesupport-1.1.2-3.alpha.rpm

kdetoys-

1.1.2-2.alpha.rpm

kdeutils-1.1.2-2.alpha.rpm

korganizer-1.1.1-2.alpha.rpm

kpilot-

3.1b9-3.alpha.rpm

SPARC:

kdeadmin-1.1.2-3.sparc.rpm

kdebase-1.1.2-11.sparc.rpm

kdegames-1.1.2-2.sparc.rpm

kdegraphics-1.1.2-2.sparc.rpm

kdelibs-

1.1.2-9.sparc.rpm

kdemultimedia-1.1.2-3.sparc.rpm

kdenetwork-1.1.2-4.sparc.rpm

kdesupport-1.1.2-3.sparc.rpm

kdetoys-

1.1.2-2.sparc.rpm

kdeutils-1.1.2-2.sparc.rpm

korganizer-1.1.1-2.sparc.rpm

kpilot-

3.1b9-3.sparc.rpm

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