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Red Hat 6.1 RHSA-1999:052-04 Critical: Initscripts Race Condition Issue

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Calendar Grey December 7, 1999
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A new patch has been released for Red Hat initscripts, addressing a critical security vulnerability along with several operational glitches.
One security bug and several functionality bugs have been fixed in a new release of initscripts

Solution



For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:


rpm -Uvh filename


where filename is the name of the RPM.

9. Verification:


 MD5 sum                           Package Name

44190a9a34298d590529b0385111d3d6  i386/initscripts-4.70-1.i386.rpm
257fa5ae56d10113a83520045f6cbd47  sparc/initscripts-4.70-1.sparc.rpm
589280ce8452996c5338c155c1828872  SRPMS/initscripts-4.70-1.src.rpm



These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key is available at:

You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig filename

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 --nogpg filename

Note that you need RPM >= 3.0 to check GnuPG keys.









Summary

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat critical software update initscripts race condition

References


 

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Topic

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat critical software update initscripts race condition

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Linux 6.1, Intel, Sparc

5. Obsoleted by:

None

6. Conflicts with:

None

7. RPMs required:

Intel:

initscripts-4.70-1.i386.rpm

SPARC:

initscripts-4.70-1.sparc.rpm

Source:

initscripts-4.70-1.src.rpm

Bugs Fixed

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