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              AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
                             
                      ESB-2000.072 -- FreeBSD-SA-00:13
                generic-nqs contains a local root compromise
                                20 April 2000

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The FreeBSD Security Team has released the following advisory concerning a 
security vulnerability in the 'generic-nqs' software which is supplied as 
part of the ports collection shipped with FreeBSD 4.0. 

This vulnerability may allow local users to gain root access.


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FreeBSD-SA-00:13                                           Security Advisory
                                                                FreeBSD, Inc.

Topic:		generic-nqs contains a local root compromise

Category:       ports
Module:         generic-nqs
Announced:      2000-04-19
Credits:	Philippe Andersson <philippe_andersson@STE.SCITEX.COM>
		via BugTraq
Affects:        Ports collection before the correction date.
Corrected:      2000-04-16
Vendor status:	Updated version released.
FreeBSD only:   NO

I.   Background

Generic-NQS is a Network Queuing System for batch-processing jobs across
multiple machines.

II.  Problem Description

Generic-NQS versions 3.50.7 and earlier contain a security vulnerability
which allow a local user to easily obtain root privileges. Unfortunately,
further details of the location and nature of the vulnerability were not
provided by the original poster, upon request of the Generic-NQS
developers.

The generic-nqs port is not installed by default, nor is it "part of
FreeBSD" as such: it is part of the FreeBSD ports collection, which
contains over 3200 third-party applications in a ready-to-install
format. The ports collection shipped with FreeBSD 4.0 contains this
problem since it was discovered after the release.

FreeBSD makes no claim about the security of these third-party
applications, although an effort is underway to provide a security
audit of the most security-critical ports.

III. Impact

A local user can obtain root privileges by exploiting a vulnerability
in the generic-nqs package.

If you have not chosen to install the generic-nqs port/package, then your
system is not vulnerable to this problem.

IV.  Workaround

Remove the generic-nqs port, if you you have installed it.

V.   Solution

1) Upgrade your entire ports collection and rebuild the generic-nqs port.

2) Reinstall a new package dated after the correction date, obtained from:

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-3-stable/net/generic-nqs-3.50.9.tgz
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/net/generic-nqs-3.50.9.tgz
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/alpha/packages-4-stable/net/generic-nqs-3.50.9.tgz
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-current/net/generic-nqs-3.50.9.tgz
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/alpha/packages-5-current/net/generic-nqs-3.50.9.tgz

Note that it may be a few days before the updated package is available.

3) download a new port skeleton for the generic-nqs port from:

http://www.freebsd.org/ports/

and use it to rebuild the port.

4) Use the portcheckout utility to automate option (3) above. The
portcheckout port is available in /usr/ports/devel/portcheckout or the
package can be obtained from:

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/devel/portcheckout-1.0.tgz



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