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Mandrake: Updated playmidi packages Print E-mail
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Posted by Joseph Shakespeare   
Mandrake Erik Sjolund discovered a buffer overflow in playmidi that could be exploited by a local attacker if installed setuid root. Note that by default Mandrakelinux does not ship playmidi installed setuid root.
 _______________________________________________________________________

                 Mandrakelinux Security Update Advisory
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Package name:           playmidi
 Advisory ID:            MDKSA-2005:010
 Date:                   January 19th, 2005

 Affected versions:	 10.0, 10.1, Corporate Server 3.0
 ______________________________________________________________________

 Problem Description:

 Erik Sjolund discovered a buffer overflow in playmidi that could be
 exploited by a local attacker if installed setuid root.  Note that by
 default Mandrakelinux does not ship playmidi installed setuid root.
 _______________________________________________________________________

 References:

  http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0020
 ______________________________________________________________________

 Updated Packages:
  
 Mandrakelinux 10.0:
 11b39014c3c354c549f4b510d0e59ad5  10.0/RPMS/playmidi-2.5-3.1.100mdk.i586.rpm
 930ad98832bc68b4f2d97cde16fbb589  10.0/RPMS/playmidi-X11-2.5-3.1.100mdk.i586.rpm
 ac2bef9ddcba160bf52f9a883c759fdf  10.0/SRPMS/playmidi-2.5-3.1.100mdk.src.rpm

 Mandrakelinux 10.0/AMD64:
 629089b1281e17784bd3fc4d69d8424a  amd64/10.0/RPMS/playmidi-2.5-3.1.100mdk.amd64.rpm
 d8cf76271cfab47e597090400c32ca4a  amd64/10.0/RPMS/playmidi-X11-2.5-3.1.100mdk.amd64.rpm
 ac2bef9ddcba160bf52f9a883c759fdf  amd64/10.0/SRPMS/playmidi-2.5-3.1.100mdk.src.rpm

 Mandrakelinux 10.1:
 1be61eeb85b0c916771fc5a834691835  10.1/RPMS/playmidi-2.5-3.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
 e43429abba5378ab18d5d8cb1b61c345  10.1/RPMS/playmidi-X11-2.5-3.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
 c1958aeb4fe6a620b43c90581c5cbef8  10.1/SRPMS/playmidi-2.5-3.1.101mdk.src.rpm

 Mandrakelinux 10.1/X86_64:
 acbe49ee3b86227a0757cd8ebf7b1d08  x86_64/10.1/RPMS/playmidi-2.5-3.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
 3f1bd829359d1d5b26d879ca3ed20c8b  x86_64/10.1/RPMS/playmidi-X11-2.5-3.1.101mdk.x86_64.rpm
 c1958aeb4fe6a620b43c90581c5cbef8  x86_64/10.1/SRPMS/playmidi-2.5-3.1.101mdk.src.rpm

 Corporate Server 3.0:
 ee62926bf969895976b99bafb79d12a6  corporate/3.0/RPMS/playmidi-2.5-3.1.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 983da3f98fd776bdeb484ce6228e8a8d  corporate/3.0/RPMS/playmidi-X11-2.5-3.1.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 70a3be81e9afce9341faf9ce61e7e60a  corporate/3.0/SRPMS/playmidi-2.5-3.1.C30mdk.src.rpm
 _______________________________________________________________________

 To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi.  The verification
 of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

 All packages are signed by Mandrakesoft for security.  You can obtain
 the GPG public key of the Mandrakelinux Security Team by executing:

  gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

 You can view other update advisories for Mandrakelinux at:

  http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories

 If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

  security_linux-mandrake.com

 Type Bits/KeyID     Date       User ID
 pub  1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Linux Mandrake Security Team
  
 
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