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Debian: DSA-095-1 Urgent: Local Root Access Vulnerability in Gpm

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Calendar Grey December 27, 2001
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------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DS
Among other problems, the gpm-root program contains a format stringvulnerability, which allows an attacker to gain root privileges.
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Summary

Package : gpm
Problem type : local root vulnerability
Debian-specific: no

The package 'gpm' contains the 'gpm-root' program, which can be used to
create mouse-activated menus on the console.
Among other problems, the gpm-root program contains a format string
vulnerability, which allows an attacker to gain root privileges.

This has been fixed in version 1.17.8-18.1, and we recommend that you upgrade
your 1.17.8-18 package immediately.

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


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

Source archives:

MD5 checksum: 8c48aa1656391d3755c289a87db13bf0

MD5 checksum: bafbe8ffe73d3b5783e9841f1894af77

MD5 checksum: 9d50c299bf925996546efaf32de1db7b

Alpha architecture:

MD5 checksum: 0e50705cadfd58777d02fa6806c10bdf


MD5 checksum: cbeeeac3795318255126814d71b7...

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