Debian: New loop-aes-utils packages fix privilege escalation
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 825-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze September 29th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : loop-aes-utils Vulnerability : privilege escalation Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-2876 David Watson discoverd a bug in mount as provided by util-linux and other packages such as loop-aes-utils that allows local users to bypass filesystem access restrictions by re-mounting it read-only. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain loop-aes-utils packages. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.12p-4sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.12p-9. We recommend that you upgrade your loop-aes-utils 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: 684 e708365ea3b674ef3983edda999d8070 Size/MD5 checksum: 69614 f085322d67f1300c914910c1ca1fd95f Size/MD5 checksum: 2001658 d47e820f6880c21c8b4c0c7e8a7376cc Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 169938 66c4a72d906d1e55965165e3b6f49689 AMD64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 150498 9d6d3455ac704fa38601a2a1670d9f2a ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 142030 c7c7fc0cb178d9b9878d936f0a8426e3 Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 142250 de42b52353becd80ee61922a1b21486a Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 190858 ede8efa9e792c2e8e05ddc08b1570670 HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 156618 d326b2462c0f9abd2278e0ea4c809183 Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 132244 de86a9f8f29f23ea7d2b8ee896844ba6 Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 159556 f37ed88ed75765546aba0ae13e2f80ab Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 160092 2a89a577a2edec9920050650b7e96484 PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 155064 64bb3aff51cdff0a0bc6851e9aed2ddd IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 153226 9a4bb20c30f7cf5127c0c5ec6f0862e8 Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 142068 15cb6e8097a22a66e77ff7fd0aebbe76 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