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Debian Security Advisory DSA 079-1                       security@debian.org 
Debian -- Security Information                                Martin Schulze
September 24, 2001
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Package        : uucp
Vulnerability  : uucp uid/gid access
Problem-Type   : local exploit
Debian-specific: no

zen-parse has found a problem with Taylor UUCP as distributed with
many GNU/Linux distributions.  It was possible to make `uux' execute
`uucp' with malicious commandline arguments which gives an attacker
access to files owned by uid/gid uucp.

This problem has been fixed in version of 1.06.1-11potato1 for Debian
GNU/Linux 2.2 by using a patch that Red Hat has provided.

We recommend that you upgrade your uucp package immediately.

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 2.2 alias potato
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  Source archives:

      
      MD5 checksum: 4e2f02a4abd2ce86ffb0e154ef5d162b
      
      MD5 checksum: fd358e7e14f32ffa16cd3f2e6137b05c
      
      MD5 checksum: 390af5277915fcadbeee74d2f3038af9

  Alpha architecture:

      
      MD5 checksum: c1ad1038530a5ee1a6fb92fb90be287f

  ARM architecture:

      
      MD5 checksum: 5821d1b6b9bccfa7486183216ffc7dfa

  Intel ia32 architecture:

      
      MD5 checksum: deb9d76651686c2b0a2d51488e3cf0da

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

      
      MD5 checksum: 37f78dceb1e6c3b492246c888a744af7

  PowerPC architecture:

      
      MD5 checksum: e2a81774e4cd6c1eabbcf1c8fbf2e406

  Sun Sparc architecture:

      
      MD5 checksum: 28148692a588b9b0c9b7598d0084fd2a


  These files will be moved into the stable distribution on its next
  revision.

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