Debian: 'sudo' buffer overflow
Debian: 'sudo' buffer overflow
Todd Miller announced a new version of sudo which corrects a buffer overflow that could potentially be used to gain root privilages on the local system.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-031-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Stone February 28, 2001 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package: sudo Vulnerability: buffer overflow Debian-specific: no Todd Miller announced a new version of sudo which corrects a buffer overflow that could potentially be used to gain root privilages on the local system. The fix from sudo 1.6.3p6 is available in sudo 1.6.2p2-1potato1 for Debian 2.2 (potato). We recommend you upgrade your sudo package immediately. 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 2.2 alias potato ------------------------------------ Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc architectures. Source archives: https://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/stable/updates/main/source/sudo_1.6.2p2-1potato1.diff.gz MD5 checksum: b25c73940abcd6768e7f9d879709a45e https://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/stable/updates/main/source/sudo_1.6.2p2-1potato1.dsc MD5 checksum: 1cae605d9c06d7c68b14e5cca59629fc https://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/stable/updates/main/source/sudo_1.6.2p2.orig.tar.gz MD5 checksum: dd5944c880fd5cc56bc0f0199e92d2b4 Alpha architecture: https://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/sudo_1.6.2p2-1potato1_alpha.deb MD5 checksum: 16ff5db5460f787b859efc512b00fb32 ARM architecture: https://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/sudo_1.6.2p2-1potato1_arm.deb MD5 checksum: e1771d334e62f5fab75d15e30eceb37b Intel ia32 architecture: https://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/sudo_1.6.2p2-1potato1_i386.deb MD5 checksum: 837a528b2e0ad0971931794e1319b0f8 Motorola 680x0 architecture: https://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/sudo_1.6.2p2-1potato1_m68k.deb MD5 checksum: 1e7e0e90c21679b5973873efb08412f0 PowerPC architecture: Not yet available. Sun Sparc architecture: https://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/sudo_1.6.2p2-1potato1_sparc.deb MD5 checksum: fd67c6d7d6128af61e9bdd702501aefe These files will be moved into ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/ soon. For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb https://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Package info: `apt-cache show' and https://packages.debian.org/