Debian: Local Exploit In Screen Moderate: Privilege Escalation Threat
debian
September 4, 2000
A format string bug was recently discovered in screen which can be used to gain elevated privilages if screen is setuid.
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Summary
A fixed version of screen is available in version 3.7.4-9.1 for Debian
2.1 (slink) and in version 3.9.5-9 for Debian 2.2 (potato).
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
Slink was released for alpha, i386, m68k and sparc architectures.
We are releasing binary packages for i386 only at this time.
Source archives:
MD5 checksum: 20af8bde6e87398db100a817ab81c173
MD5 checksum: 8c391f8c6a9af846b60701c6677e4d25
MD5 checksum: c5ab40b068968075e41e25607dfce543
Intel ia32 archives:
MD5 checksum: a62f293aa7e0876cf49d51d3d216c09a
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
architectures. At this moment packages for m68k are not yet
available. As soon as they are ready we will put them online and
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