New version of amd fixes remove exploit
New version of amd fixes remove exploit
The version of amd that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is
vulnerable to a remote exploit. Passing a big directory name to
amd its logging code would overflow a buffer which could be exploited.
This has been fixed in version 23.0slink1.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman September 24, 1999 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The version of amd that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is vulnerable to a remote exploit. Passing a big directory name to amd its logging code would overflow a buffer which could be exploited. This has been fixed in version 23.0slink1. We recommand that you upgrade your amd package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink - -------------------------------- This version of Debian was released only for Intel, the Motorola 680x0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture. Source archives: https://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/amd_u pl102-23.0slink1.diff.gz MD5 checksum: 1182f8bd9ad26d171ff1295899a1460b https://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/amd_upl10 2-23.0slink1.dsc MD5 checksum: b5b842c6fa9068d5dfca426220c995f1 https://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/amd_upl102.orig.tar. gz MD5 checksum: 76c61a893523001961437475ee2f79c5 Alpha architecture: https://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary- alpha/amd_upl102-23.0slink1_alpha.deb MD5 checksum: ce3eb36f6ace8f0cd4530450d2286fce Intel ia32 architecture: https://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary- i386/amd_upl102-23.0slink1_i386.deb MD5 checksum: 6ef7be0caa75d0320f7acd61674eedcf Motorola 680x0 architecture: https://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary- m68k/amd_upl102-23.0slink1_m68k.deb MD5 checksum: 7f50ac1416a4b7c316bda99d5bc42ee0 Sun Sparc architecture: https://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary- sparc/amd_upl102-23.0slink1_sparc.deb MD5 checksum: 08a00238f63f8a6cfcad011eaa5f0b39 - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb https://security.debian.org/ stable updates For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBN+rOj6jZR/ntlUftAQHo9gL9EZdJvreft6lfcACOMza3s+ki8uRkTKwu RS0cv8kWIqgwRLTDtuJpSYvVPpsA3lVoGrYK7BbiixjwngbnNsD6uOyCd+RDiPgw 11g9O+if3C/Wz2XX3Gi2EMDgCiGlszqD =1LhS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----