Debian: New inotify-tools packages fix arbitrary code
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1440-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff December 28, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : inotify-tools Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-5037 Debian Bug : 443913 It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the filename processing of the inotify-tools, a command-line interface to inotify, may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. This only affects the internal library and none of the frontend tools shipped in Debian. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.3-2. The old stable distribution (sarge) does not provide inotify-tools. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.11-1. We recommend that you upgrade your inotify-tools 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 4.0 (stable) - -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 624 883ee55627b7becb5a9ca1a2e569281b Size/MD5 checksum: 369780 204ef6e0b855ec4315f4f13e2d3d1e1a Size/MD5 checksum: 5311 7bde9f27b0bb470a44d64b40b1e217e1 alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) Size/MD5 checksum: 51356 81b86adf6ba52bac0c463948cbbe2b49 amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) Size/MD5 checksum: 44668 b64ada55dc7a779df25b8aaf69347ef0 arm architecture (ARM) Size/MD5 checksum: 41972 6a7d420d5d00261ad40cc12ada606144 hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) Size/MD5 checksum: 48782 0f85ebaecd2c1449afc7c31bbf1b1ac5 i386 architecture (Intel ia32) Size/MD5 checksum: 78260 e462da2503c92d98510647fb0c1f44eb ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) Size/MD5 checksum: 58450 f3e9432dd2725689a945e85f4c9a6fc3 mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 44252 d7166ae065ed439dfee037a20ce2f7eb mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 43936 903bb81400b5769e787a871634335188 powerpc architecture (PowerPC) Size/MD5 checksum: 49284 145b4a75de5c8abaf38390f1f69789e0 s390 architecture (IBM S/390) Size/MD5 checksum: 45262 9346fa472ba657b973fd7c837b94024c sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC) Size/MD5 checksum: 43658 eb008682403c08de1baa65d79f46eaa5 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