Immunix Secured OS 7+ LPRng update

[Immunix Security Team <security () immunix com>]

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        Immunix Secured OS Security Advisory

Packages updated:       LPRng
Affected products:      Immunix OS 7+
Bugs fixed:             CAN-2003-0136
Date:                   Wed Jun  4 2003
Advisory ID:            IMNX-2003-7+-013-01
Author:                 Seth Arnold <sarnold () immunix com>
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Description:
  Quoting from the Red Hat security advisory:
     LPRng is a print spooler.  LPRng includes a program, psbanner,
     that can be used to produce Postscript banner pages to separate
     print jobs.

     A vulnerability has been found in psbanner, which creates a temporary
     file with a known filename in an insecure manner.  An attacker could
     create a symbolic link and cause arbitrary files to be written as
     the 'lp' user.
  
  Our thanks to Karol Lewandowski for discovering this problem.

  We've also changed ownership of the utility programs from lp:lp to
  root:root, which should help mitigate the potential problems in the
  event of future security problems in LPRng.

  References: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/319673
  http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0136

Package names and locations:
  Precompiled binary packages for Immunix 7+ are available at:
  http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7+/Updates/RPMS/LPRng-3.6.24-2_imnx_1.i386.rpm

  A source package for Immunix 7+ is available at:
  http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7+/Updates/SRPMS/LPRng-3.6.24-2_imnx_1.src.rpm

Immunix OS 7+ md5sums:
  476f927a3679c20d0d4015ca709ee455  RPMS/LPRng-3.6.24-2_imnx_1.i386.rpm
  5fe1a6d04c389c0b553717849100dab1  SRPMS/LPRng-3.6.24-2_imnx_1.src.rpm


GPG verification:                                                               
  Our public key is available at <http://wirex.com/security/GPG_KEY>.           

NOTE:
  Ibiblio is graciously mirroring our updates, so if the links above are
  slow, please try:
    ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/immunix/
  or one of the many mirrors available at:
    http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html

  ImmunixOS 6.2 is no longer officially supported.
  ImmunixOS 7.0 is no longer officially supported.

Contact information:
  To report vulnerabilities, please contact security () wirex com. WireX 
  attempts to conform to the RFP vulnerability disclosure protocol
  <http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/policy.html>.

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