From debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Mon Oct 4 16:25:02 2004 From: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Resent-From: list@murphy.debian.org (SmartList) To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 12:16:41 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com Subject: [Full-Disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 557-1] New rp-pppoe packages fix potential root compromise -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 557-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze October 4th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/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: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/rp-pppoe_3.3-1.2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 571 20a98e281e9effbdbe253d5f1ec7c07b http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/rp-pppoe_3.3-1.2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 17171 840c64159a02c63bcd84ad84acbcfbbe http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/rp-pppoe_3.3.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 171480 1cd6bc22f7601f769bb654db4a15b15d Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 83104 ea1e596bbd07d28d272c723ef627b935 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 60492 6f90f09bbb0115dd8b5aa08970fc7007 Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 54276 765e571caff2562b74bdae9636712d58 Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 90212 c03d1045236ee6aaf0bec77e287b0a50 HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 64064 8669b8c254a243fbb4620e9cf5ac5905 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 51000 23a16fdf89476bdf62107667d9f71d50 Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 68078 750310a89f7f34d0e8921efb45999cda Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 68320 eb2c9ea82226df16363392e78ab04fb1 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 56970 dd068ef0338515cc0a846ed1dfdf0dbc IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 58376 8b520d4fc7ff356d40e7f7fc1b10b8e3 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 64326 c5523f8e12ec9bd01a003912df5611a7 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBYSMJW5ql+IAeqTIRAtO0AJ92EvDNM/PdhkdErRBGPecw64hhfACdFHEz Qyws0FhUZmFPQdgRAVW72Rw= =GgYg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html