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Debian 10 Buster DLA-3075-1 Critical: Schroot Denial of Service

debian lts
Calendar Grey August 18, 2022
Dist Debian Esm H88
Enhance Debian LTS security by updating the schroot package to fix vulnerabilities in session name handling and prevent potential DoS attacks
Julian Gilbey discovered that schroot, a tool allowing users to execute commands in a chroot environment, had too permissive rules on chroot or session names, allowing a denial of ...

Summary

Note that existing chroots and sessions are checked during upgrade, and
an upgrade is aborted if any future invalid name is detected.

Problematic session and chroots can be checked before upgrading with the
following command:

schroot --list --all | LC_ALL=C grep -vE '^[a-z]+:[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_.-]*$'

See



for instructions on how to resolve such a situation.

For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version
1.6.10-6+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your schroot packages.

For the detailed security status of schroot please refer to its security
tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/schroot

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS


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Package: schroot
Version: 1.6.10-6+deb10u1
CVE ID: CVE-2022-2787

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