Updated playmidi packages are available for Mandrakelinux
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Mandrakelinux Security Update Advisory
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Package name: playmidi
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2005:010
Date: January 19th, 2005

Affected versions: 10.0, 10.1, Corporate Server 3.0
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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.



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References:

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