Debian: DSA-1527-1 Critical Privilege Escalation in Debian-Goodies
debian
March 24, 2008
Thomas de Grenier de Latour discovered that the checkrestart tool in the
debian-goodies suite of utilities, allowed local users to gain privileges
via shell metacharacters in the...
Summary
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.23+sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.34.
We recommend that you upgrade your debian-goodies package.
Upgrade instructions
- --------------------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 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 11779 e0834e7e962fabc65362a60c73362585
Size/MD5 checksum: 819 37eb124fef7c9897ea41ec861ec740ff
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 22488 c8bc8eab12c7e3f29e53f4172ee837a4
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias ...
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