1. Topic:
ORBit and gnome-session each contained a denial-of-service hole.

ORBit and esound each contained a security hole.

2. Problem description:
ORBit and esound used a source of random data that was easily guessable, possibly allowing an attacker with local access to guess the authentication keys used to control access to these services.

ORBit and gnome-session contained a bug that allowed attackers to remotely crash a program under unusual circumstances. In addition to fixing these problems, TCP Wrappers support has been added to gnome-session. ORBit already makes use of TCP Wrappers. It is recommended that this functionality be used when additional access controls are desired on network access to these services.

3. Bug IDs fixed: (see bugzilla for more information)

4. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Linux 6.1, Intel and SPARC

5. Obsoleted by:
None

6. Conflicts with:
None

7. RPMs required:

Intel:

ORBit-0.5.0- 2.i386.rpm
ORBit- devel-0.5.0-2.i386.rpm
esound- 0.2.17-1.i386.rpm
esound-devel-0.2.17-1.i386.rpm
gnome- core-1.0.54-2.i386.rpm
gnome-core-devel-1.0.54-2.i386.rpm

SPARC:

ORBit- 0.5.0-2.sparc.rpm
ORBit-devel-0.5.0-2.sparc.rpm
esound- 0.2.17-1.sparc.rpm
esound-devel-0.2.17-1.sparc.rpm
gnome-core-1.0.54-2.sparc.rpm
gnome-core-devel-1.0.54-2.sparc.rpm

Source:

ORBit-0.5.0- 2.src.rpm
esound- 0.2.17-1.src.rpm
gnome- core-1.0.54-2.src.rpm

8. 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

 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
35cb261853a01711fb47ee6d48149bd4  i386/ORBit-0.5.0-2.i386.rpm
808e9dca462f8ef765b454b25e017614  i386/ORBit-devel-0.5.0-2.i386.rpm
261e7063065c50f5eb4235cb373c85f1  i386/esound-0.2.17-1.i386.rpm
fa44e546df9b307cec6557cac0112eff  i386/esound-devel-0.2.17-1.i386.rpm
d8c3814f4b8c19c38af526271dd1c294  i386/gnome-core-1.0.54-2.i386.rpm
a689359b3ff0bbe3ebc908a4ab5aaaad  i386/gnome-core-devel-1.0.54-2.i386.rpm
4ce667c72a33146c5280cc7fecba0f4d  sparc/ORBit-0.5.0-2.sparc.rpm
473056e09906fe49914c1d79dd30dc98  sparc/ORBit-devel-0.5.0-2.sparc.rpm
8ed14577fb93f8c684a98962c564b772  sparc/esound-0.2.17-1.sparc.rpm
0f8965c2d13bc000a87ed26ab5459ffb  sparc/esound-devel-0.2.17-1.sparc.rpm
11a28ec13e110cbaabb403333efe27c1  sparc/gnome-core-1.0.54-2.sparc.rpm
7b86b6bb257376242e88096f1aafc722  sparc/gnome-core-devel-1.0.54-2.sparc.rpm
9fa749891ed4e9505b07cac512e80808  SRPMS/ORBit-0.5.0-2.src.rpm
4d34ef79104c3b754f368900a1f09370  SRPMS/esound-0.2.17-1.src.rpm
48f5b99bc92048e99e159a026b314871  SRPMS/gnome-core-1.0.54-2.src.rpm

 

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.

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