Debian: trr19 Missing privilege release
Summary
Steve Kemp discovered a problem in trr19, a type trainer application
for GNU Emacs, which is written as a pair of setgid() binaries and
wrapper programs which execute commands for GNU Emacs. However, the
binaries don't drop privileges before executing a command, allowing an
attacker to gain access to the local group games.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0beta5-15woody1. The mipsel binary will be added later.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your trr19 package.
Upgrade Instructions
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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
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 579 ef536f27bf538edc75bcc4a815f90cef
Size/MD5 checksum: 6042 4715d96b763e25a08a9884108e5d5199
Size/MD5 checksum: 73636 72716b40338afe9e375c78738bb8a299
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 75648 857fdaaaed024174255c3feb7e917fc6
ARM architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 74618 bd883afc8db992aa1cb1308c832d58e8
Intel IA-32 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 75032 daa5213df6e8ed2b0eddb865b5b3aed4
Intel IA-64 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 76514 3f77d3971bade37e405c0179743f6475
HP Precision architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 75304 f76e14612d1d899ffee59b4620e032f2
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 74984 5147a5fa1557f0f87b839c197f79cb1d
Big endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 74790 413cc56a3563299eae4cb05f3314d981
PowerPC architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 74746 745ef750e98a4746e928833d724e005e
IBM S/390 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 75434 da8efd5d8c74b16f1d0873219ec4d193
Sun Sparc architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 78932 02ee65da931254b1bd10b6358013b222
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
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