Debian: New scponly packages fix potential root vulnerability
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 969-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze February 13th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : scponly Vulnerability : design error Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-4532 Debian Bug : 344418 Max Vozeller discovered a vulnerability in scponly, a utility to restrict user commands to scp and sftp, that could lead to the execution of arbitray commands as root. The system is only vulnerable if the program scponlyc is installed setuid root and if regular users have shell access to the machine. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain an scponly package. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0-1sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.6-1. We recommend that you upgrade your scponly 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: 600 ef0e45e07cfdd80fd53c0d3cd3daa31e Size/MD5 checksum: 27012 96ee81daa1b248fe679106a9d9986b1b Size/MD5 checksum: 85053 1706732945996865ed0cccd440b64fc1 Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 31270 662c573abf24bf1094e939b89acd5575 AMD64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 30254 5db48bd53f0ca4fea76091221ceee6ac ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 29046 95081c9ab7115b06f4b370bf8ecadae6 Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 29356 1f2e8799c3c018c17734665f2610bef2 Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 33144 887025e1e4ff759edd4f69005c6c2b3b HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 30262 f721669ee692a8b21d975912a0a67f56 Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 29002 e7d63e25636483f8437b57d897fcd1b3 Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 38582 995a79aab6d2ed7ab4bc37b921462a9e Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 38564 95bbff4502021a1a53f45c014fca20e2 PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 29702 60138f788f40ba7ffc35de22f7bb39cc IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 30060 340a4ed4effca8e9e27643789ea300c9 Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 29302 404579837618ae530847774aab4227a3 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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