--------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory Synopsis: Potential security problem in gnumeric 0.23 Advisory ID: RHSA-1999:023-01 Issue date: 1999-07-23 Keywords: gnumeric security --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Topic: A potential security problem has been fixed in the gnumeric spreadsheet package. 2. Bug IDs fixed: 3. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Linux 6.0, all architectures 4. Obsoleted by: None. 5. Conflicts with: None. 6. RPMs required: Intel: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/i386 gnumeric-0.27-1.i386.rpm Alpha: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/alpha gnumeric-0.27-1.alpha.rpm Sparc: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/sparc gnumeric-0.27-1.sparc.rpm 7. Problem description: At the request of the gnumeric maintainer a new version is being released by Red Hat which addresses potential security issues with the version of gnumeric shipped in Red Hat Linux 6.0. 8. Solution: Upgrade to the latest version listed above. 9. Verification: MD5 sum Package Name -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 41d67505f1c53ce16ea66cec874deb87 gnumeric-0.27-1.i386.rpm 89451cf299e475197350ef0367edda63 gnumeric-0.27-1.alpha.rpm c35d7f9a29fd9421ef4d5b1ac44d6b8e gnumeric-0.27-1.sparc.rpm b28c5742c32c3d69b8e6713bb7c6f789 gnumeric-0.27-1.src.rpm These packages are also PGP signed by Red Hat Inc. for security. Our key is available at: http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html 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 --nopgp <filename> 10. References: -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Please refer to the information about this list as well as general information about Linux security at http://www.aoy.com/Linux/Security. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe linux-security-requestat_private < /dev/null
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