Debian 4.0 DSA-1668-1 Moderate: hf Programming Error Privilege Escalation

debian

November 22, 2008

Steve Kemp discovered that hf, an amateur-radio protocol suite using a soundcard as a modem, insecurely tried to execute an external command which could lead to the elevation of...

Topics Covered

security advisory local privilege escalation debian software fix programming error hf package

Summary

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.8-8.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your hf 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 4.0 alias etch
- ---------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 48134 aedcfbf8d991ebee97c1b1a57f677c32
Size/MD5 checksum: 776437 78d855ea6fccdd5fd1d1ee19d2fd5ea1
Size/MD5 checksum: 665 c225ea8d68cac81421a85f960c26942c

alpha architecture (DEC ...