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Debian Security Advisory DSA-024-1                       security@debian.org 
Debian -- Security Information                                Martin Schulze
January 27, 2001
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Package        : cron
Vulnerability  : local insecure crontab handling
Debian-specific: no

The FreeBSD team has found a bug in the way new crontabs were handled
which allowed malicious users to display arbitrary crontab files on
the local system.  This only affects valid crontab files so can't be
used to get access to /etc/shadow or something.  crontab files are not
especially secure anyway, as there are other ways they can leak.  No
passwords or similar sensitive data should be in there.

We recommend you upgrade your cron packages.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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  Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc
  architectures.


  Source archives:

    
 
      MD5 checksum: 4c64aece846f8483daf440f8e3dd210f
    
 
      MD5 checksum: c67b27e4ebf1c87abd244dea3a8765d4
    
 
      MD5 checksum: 5a3fcbbc881d50894ecbc8222bf22238
  Intel ia32 architecture:

    
 
      MD5 checksum: 4abf3f6a66449b22cd66dd89390f3b92

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

    
 
      MD5 checksum: 75836da00014f8a7cd19a9bf15a35324

  Sun Sparc architecture:

    
 
      MD5 checksum: 0f36ced2b9034efc4a4a4c27e24741b2

  Alpha architecture:

    
 
      MD5 checksum: 4ab47059690eaaefdcd7fd76dfcea7dc

  PowerPC architecture:

    
 
      MD5 checksum: 9e719f0e0184b6a74aaf9ee46512e582

  ARM architecture:

    
 
      MD5 checksum: fbadf2d251f3ca9c93ba3976368bdf46


  These files will be moved into
     soon.

For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory    .

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For apt-get: deb  Debian -- Security Information  stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp:   
dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show ' and  http://packages.debian.org/

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