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The pic command was vulnerable to a printf format attackwhich made it possible to circumvent the `-S' option and executearbitrary code.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 107-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Debian -- Security Information Martin Schulze January 30th, 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : jgroff Vulnerability : format print Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no Basically, this is the same Security Advisory as DSA 072-1, but for jgroff instead of groff. The package jgroff contains a version derived from groff that has japaneze character sets enabled. This package is available only in the stable release of Debian, patches for japanese support have been merged into the main groff package. The old advisory said: Zenith Parse found a security problem in groff (the GNU version of troff). The pic command was vulnerable to a printf format attack which made it possible to circumvent the `-S' option and execute arbitrary code. 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 ------------------------------------ Source archives: MD5 checksum: ba0fffab320b5881f467c4f52788169a MD5 checksum: e37b47561a5988793fa1da9a145d2ac0 MD5 checksum: dc1d97074ac73ab0e645a1b80d9639f2 Alpha architecture: MD5 checksum: 5f5eb9347ba9d88e76f10d85350c7c88 ARM architecture: MD5 checksum: 46adbcf3aa0eb0b4772a6a1364d92c72 Intel ia32 architecture: MD5 checksum:1980d28cf9c24231e3583ba994402388 Motorola 680x0 architecture: MD5 checksum: 02327d6d85d7a51b2654af373e5508b2 PowerPC architecture: MD5 checksum: 3f08beb01d355399e11bfaa4d28433f1 Sun Sparc architecture: MD5 checksum: a0443303f539c40f3b9415b7035abc7d 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: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Package info: `apt-cache show ' and https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages . The jgroff module has been updated to rectify a critical layout printing issue that allowed for unintended code execution.. Debian Security,jgroff package,format string overflow. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 30, 2002
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