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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1709-1                  security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                          Thijs Kinkhorst
January 21, 2009                      http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : shadow
Vulnerability  : race condition
Problem type   : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2008-5394
Debian Bug     : 505271

Paul Szabo discovered that login, the system login tool, did not
correctly handle symlinks while setting up tty permissions. If a local
attacker were able to gain control of the system utmp file, they could
cause login to change the ownership and permissions on arbitrary files,
leading to a root privilege escalation.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0.18.1-7+etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.1.1-6.

We recommend that you upgrade your shadow package.

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

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
        will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
        will install corrected packages

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


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
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Source archives:

      Size/MD5 checksum:  2354234 3f54eaa3a35e7c559f4def92e9957581
      Size/MD5 checksum:   297817 b78d9d738765da65a6b55dea102569c3
      Size/MD5 checksum:     1406 ec01ac54e482ea552fdae5753d6c1745

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   810680 329e1cd5ad019d3984411b1a8a5c77ad
      Size/MD5 checksum:   943992 76690a44c565b4594892bab69eaf7e30

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

      Size/MD5 checksum:   867696 4ce4e2f7884cd883729123163930b9dc
      Size/MD5 checksum:   806412 3a6171d83a4b79846fe4831b02007a4b

arm architecture (ARM)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   778766 df6126b8cd29de54831976a24d28589e
      Size/MD5 checksum:   791770 a9e7b122a8f9a7944bfc91b7cec77554

hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   847846 8562b322610062eb31689e467d80ff7c
      Size/MD5 checksum:   804082 af4a3f06a93be5cea7dd7dfeed8eed1b

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   792460 82c630b2f4e18217170a73a2dab27cba
      Size/MD5 checksum:   796578 439cd50477db064cdf11d9b48c0e9af0

ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

      Size/MD5 checksum:  1048736 79434b796109c1565f0f0be3cb8d06f0
      Size/MD5 checksum:   826456 13df2a0a071f407c84b25ae3ed6077bc

mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

      Size/MD5 checksum:   804530 0523d4220e9cb7e8b2342a0a33c1e989
      Size/MD5 checksum:   899612 597b58ea81e074bae374b412f28e1252

mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

      Size/MD5 checksum:   908860 ade3427a1b8b693a098544ac27ae17aa
      Size/MD5 checksum:   805100 fd9d9e49cd9b7864b06865c097f0ba08

powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   805442 c8f8683c70aabfbea99f27115afda81e
      Size/MD5 checksum:   856164 16db8928aa4424f57372e32b23b7de58

s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   820700 2cd319907d34afe08918cd5f93461f60
      Size/MD5 checksum:   804200 4851f0e0fa27d5786353b6235316215a

sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

      Size/MD5 checksum:   800196 19f9b82843f53040d2083e348d0300d4
      Size/MD5 checksum:   789552 ae637bec3b696937705a094db261e973


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next update.

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