Debian: New dropbear packages fix arbitrary code execution
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 923-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze December 19th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : dropbear Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : local (remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-4178 A buffer overflow has been discovered in dropbear, a lightweight SSH2 server and client, that may allow authenticated users to execute arbitrary code as the server user (usually root). The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain dropbear packages. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.45-2sarge0. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.47-1. We recommend that you upgrade your dropbear 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 - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 562 771c96890c39a12c47120ddd910d006e Size/MD5 checksum: 4319 c968be5d18aa754d7ee8811f75ecc852 Size/MD5 checksum: 1455970 29babade35e1d8a322e4726886473a84 Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 281480 5629ae5d6fd265b3d102564c8a4d31cf AMD64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 231480 2aa8ed3a949b983bd638568d47bcc10c ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 200804 85c55cf59293bef6ea547240106288f6 Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 202040 57744bf60afc9a2a513e55942f99e049 Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 314292 15cfb647be2679801b1a0ac34bd1b19b HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 231472 3110c908e587d7a8a0b93b520d240e06 Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 181280 0cdbf4dee816ba3d296cccc8ba5bcb43 Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 244772 08ca3d67421ee4c71abc49426b79229b Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 245768 50abc231c3074055a4dcb552425062de PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 225898 4289b9460a9378969b4fdb120877dacd IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 230878 403a282803b66481a0c34fc1be4bdda2 Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 200704 22879b1b90f75ac8bfb48c489eccbf3b These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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