- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 1177-1                    security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
September 15th, 2006                    http://www.debian.org/security/faq
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package        : usermin
Vulnerability  : programming error
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID         : CVE-2006-4246
CERT advisory  : 
BugTraq ID     : 
Debian Bug     : 374609

Hendrik Weimer discovered that it is possible for a normal user to
disable the login shell of the root account via usermin, a web-based
administration tool.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.110-3.1.

In the upstream distribution this problem is fixed in version 1.220.

We recommend that you upgrade your usermin 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 at the end of this advisory:

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:     1079 1b5ab754b82a6ff0abc0d2fc125c920a
          Size/MD5 checksum:    20131 d1582cca3bbe1a376cb16591b550a241
          Size/MD5 checksum:  1791868 cf214bb9927bd230a148ea3077bd8919

  Architecture independent components:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    21654 7709317a8e5182ed0f9f76b942cc608a
          Size/MD5 checksum:    18924 cbaad0cc1daf80efbdb6eacc20829e99
          Size/MD5 checksum:    13858 72ae504bded25ed8b8ecfe3cb6708168
          Size/MD5 checksum:    27728 4b80b6d368265d43139f2a7a800a9a0b
          Size/MD5 checksum:    62618 864bfdf0f00b1d0585c20aa7d02ee504
          Size/MD5 checksum:     8930 4247520dc9a76a9957c08b4777e8ace9
          Size/MD5 checksum:    36392 b2bbc376806f1a95d812bfb8da0e8106
          Size/MD5 checksum:    28648 011e7762a8c9fd8fb6b111b0a2e99807
          Size/MD5 checksum:    32508 cb67585370a7b1926d288abab8a19f9a
          Size/MD5 checksum:   276924 a70ac23b2e452687690098dc5e668c6c
          Size/MD5 checksum:    20516 878b90afd7460d3123f9f0edc61fbd30
          Size/MD5 checksum:   174834 c9ca85c93dfe181bef26bb2048ad0f3d
          Size/MD5 checksum:    36290 74f1413927a5ea8869b2690f6385b5ef
          Size/MD5 checksum:   148702 2cf835a9bcf9218cf896081329441a83
          Size/MD5 checksum:    10648 083c5307a16e0caa709b8b717862b7c6
          Size/MD5 checksum:   121962 7c006c458d54d851e0515c55df176e97
          Size/MD5 checksum:    77788 ca0c4b1ec4f1c5267135a2fc136c602a
          Size/MD5 checksum:    26816 cc7649ba038e6101e9b687949e8ba6b4
          Size/MD5 checksum:    52766 1cb1548d3545928281fdaab654b6e4e7
          Size/MD5 checksum:     6216 fc2c7d9556acf545033a1c987d3a4e46
          Size/MD5 checksum:    61828 d1777002638418dbc5de7750bd7b1e8d
          Size/MD5 checksum:    88912 2769e14cbe77a723a97724e6cba0ad6a
          Size/MD5 checksum:    47916 752fc28d2fa8fe7e113ba45dc024ee99
          Size/MD5 checksum:    12040 f40d0a44902f808d23af4d9f0a71f953
          Size/MD5 checksum:    24304 b0f335885164e18c784de10e44af4f60
          Size/MD5 checksum:    91100 5328bf55d1a4faed368123461ac5274c
          Size/MD5 checksum:   491116 ff5204df55e4761057a487e9125c743f


  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
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