Debian DSA 930-1 Critical: Smstools Format String Attack Exploit
debian
January 27, 2006
Ulf Harnhammar from the Debian Security Audit project discovered a
format string attack in the logging code of smstools, which may be
exploited to execute arbitary code with root...
Topics Covered
Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.14.8-1sarge0.
For the unstable distribution the package will be updated shortly.
We recommend that you upgrade your smstools 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
smstools_1.14.8-1sarge0.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 5106 ef55852ce6da003ef5f45df6eed1a8c5
smstools_1.14.8-1sarge0.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 624 1e69b0c4a20ce7f08bce8a8b51b8504d
smstools_1.14.8.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 158423 85b342e53d7fdde89ef25...
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