Debian 3.1 DSA-946-1 Critical: Sudo Input Sanitisation Exploit
debian
January 27, 2006
It has been discovered that sudo, a privileged program, that provides
limited super user privileges to specific users, passes several
environment variables to the program that ru...
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Summary
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.6-1.5.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.8p7-1.3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.8p12-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your sudo package. For unstable
"Defaults = env_reset" need to be addeed to /etc/sudoers manually.
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
Size/MD5 checksum: 587 5283a27497c0b72d5b6e76f9b667e01e
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