Debian: New prozilla packages fix arbitrary code execution
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 719-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 28th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : prozilla Vulnerability : format string problems Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-0523 BugTraq ID : 12635 Several format string problems have been discovered in prozilla, a multi-threaded download accelerator, that can be exploited by a malicious server to execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user running prozilla. For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.6-3woody2. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.7.4-1. We recommend that you upgrade your prozilla 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 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 612 b928187dd8f03148a2539d4b3c80b438 Size/MD5 checksum: 9649 fe452d3b07b843d9bdb0a62eea08b32e Size/MD5 checksum: 152755 65864dfe72f5cb7d7e595ca6f34fc7d7 Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 78456 67eb74ad4ef6f7b11fb6d0c84e97e885 ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 65416 ee4e2b27282f5d797388cf9db6bb1ae6 Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 64420 ca9cf2d80468eb3c6f262efd2865f32f Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 93510 41775fe0d297ef48a07decba2df534d0 HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 74488 8d7ccf055d158ddd57f29ff6a67a54ba Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 61402 087350199da0c600391b0975956d097a Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 73084 5a5e06a2436b08c7133ce1a21b97a167 Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 73182 8479c67ce0ccb680821aeddba9fdb2e5 PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 68490 7c83bdce09185e681b20c3903fcc18fd IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 65476 e25037beaff259f42db818fb8e8a403b Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 68120 a1c98ba0fad335c84930c8894bf57435 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