---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-031-1 security@debian.org Debian -- Security Information 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: MD5 checksum: b25c73940abcd6768e7f9d879709a45e MD5 checksum: 1cae605d9c06d7c68b14e5cca59629fc MD5 checksum: dd5944c880fd5cc56bc0f0199e92d2b4 Alpha architecture: MD5 checksum: 16ff5db5460f787b859efc512b00fb32 ARM architecture: MD5 checksum: e1771d334e62f5fab75d15e30eceb37b Intel ia32 architecture: MD5 checksum: 837a528b2e0ad0971931794e1319b0f8 Motorola 680x0 architecture: MD5 checksum: 1e7e0e90c21679b5973873efb08412f0 PowerPC architecture: Not yet available. Sun Sparc architecture: MD5 checksum: fd67c6d7d6128af61e9bdd702501aefe These files will be moved into soon. For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate directory . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb Debian -- Security Information stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show' and https://packages.debian.org/