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By explointing this, a remote attacker could potentially cause arbitrary code to be executed with the privileges of the supfilesrv process. Debian Security Advisory DSA 521-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Debian -- Security Information Matt Zimmerman June 18th, 2004 Debian -- Debian security FAQ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : sup Vulnerability : format string Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Ids : CAN-2004-0451 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. discovered a format string vulnerability in sup, a set of programs to synchronize collections of files across a number of machines, whereby a remote attacker could potentially cause arbitrary code to be executed with the privileges of the supfilesrv process (this process does not run automatically by default). CAN-2004-0451: format string vulnerabilities in sup via syslog(3) in logquit, logerr, loginfo functions For the current stable distribution (woody), this problem has been fixed in version 1.8-8woody2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you update your sup 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: 538 f5817f83647a677ec6781c9d55843307 Size/MD5 checksum: 6859 7b9cf999b1fb2c7662024ceb0c498039 Size/MD5 checksum: 11116576371f01340ce62cd71687349c5aa27e Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 103714 62123f3b8178825af23107d24c843bd1 ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 82756 a866d4f3b3fdbdb86e2db7ba745ea480 Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 82624 580ca0b977cc27212c4e7778b435d4f3 Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 127664 cf7db9e24bbf333da16343bcdc5e9e82 HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 94516 371292e2eaec3f04d49c8b29cb6e82ed Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 76454 4144ec09078326ba8e3facc6bef0e3b8 Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 96814 c7e843b2ac5573c792c8c45910717f07 Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 96452 c0558b55bce77470e1d9d52b515d39e1 PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 85246 06e0683ba5c24a406a02b131304a6e6f IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 84656 b1e6f251fc3a22eb43d9bbd3044828bc Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 89948 b8965ae16901df1eb9eb64faa8169d39 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 . A critical format string vulnerability in sup allows remote code execution. Immediate upgrade is recommended for users.. Debian Sup Format String, Remote Code Execution, Debian Security Advisory. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 19, 2004
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