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Max Vozeler discovered a vulnerability in pppoe, the PPP over Ethernet driver from Roaring Penguin. When the program is running setuid root (which is not the case in a default Debian installation), an attacker could overwrite any file on the file system.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 557-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Debian -- Security Information Martin Schulze October 4th, 2004 Debian -- Debian security FAQ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : rp-pppoe, pppoe Vulnerability : missing privilegue dropping Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2004-0564 Max Vozeler discovered a vulnerability in pppoe, the PPP over Ethernet driver from Roaring Penguin. When the program is running setuid root (which is not the case in a default Debian installation), an attacker could overwrite any file on the file system. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.3-1.2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.5-4. We recommend that you upgrade your pppoe package. Upgrade Instructions -------------------- 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: 571 20a98e281e9effbdbe253d5f1ec7c07b Size/MD5 checksum: 17171 840c64159a02c63bcd84ad84acbcfbbe Size/MD5 checksum: 171480 1cd6bc22f7601f769bb654db4a15b15d Alphaarchitecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 83104 ea1e596bbd07d28d272c723ef627b935 ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 60492 6f90f09bbb0115dd8b5aa08970fc7007 Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 54276 765e571caff2562b74bdae9636712d58 Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 90212 c03d1045236ee6aaf0bec77e287b0a50 HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 64064 8669b8c254a243fbb4620e9cf5ac5905 Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 51000 23a16fdf89476bdf62107667d9f71d50 Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 68078 750310a89f7f34d0e8921efb45999cda Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 68320 eb2c9ea82226df16363392e78ab04fb1 PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 56970 dd068ef0338515cc0a846ed1dfdf0dbc IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 58376 8b520d4fc7ff356d40e7f7fc1b10b8e3 Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 64326 c5523f8e12ec9bd01a003912df5611a7 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 . Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5772-1 tackles a critical network vulnerability in dhclient that may lead to unauthorized access under specific scenarios.. Debian Security Advisory, PPPoE Threat, Local Privilege Escalation, Critical Security Update, File System Protection. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 04, 2004
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