From joey@infodrom.org Thu Feb 10 13:55:48 2005 From: Martin Schulze Resent-From: list@murphy.debian.org (SmartList) To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:01:02 +0100 (CET) Reply-To: listadmin@securityfocus.com Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA 675-1] New hztty packages fix local utmp exploit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 675-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze February 10th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : hztty Vulnerability : privilege escalation Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-0019 Erik Sjölund discovered that hztty, a converter for GB, Big5 and zW/HZ Chinese encodings in a tty session, can be triggered to execute arbitrary commands with group utmp privileges. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0-5.2woody2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0-6.1. We recommend that you upgrade your hztty 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/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 560 921462207b6301fc73d8d2613fbaa856 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 4158 910c17cb2807c3cd7d2df62d28f016a5 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 229189 7ec5907ad55825780274b8a77b217e21 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 153974 56ea5146bfcbed6392913a2dd697ac4d ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 149808 a509091afb9f413571030158d8e172d8 Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 149432 b5b290876059e43bf376d3f22546ad06 Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 157178 652c2a0a544458bca793e3b26fe64cdc HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 153452 ca39d351f20620a31679b21312bf5d57 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 149214 b2a2faee53606c7a2599da89e7dc0779 Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 152704 2c94a83690bfaf39d26d5dadddfdd63e Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 152788 3ef6e11ca5cec6b8e077c22b99552bc5 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 150376 a9742687aec8d26f95bef974bb4de317 IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 151002 7607b570894e11c9d3eeb8c84bf5e009 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hztty/hztty_2.0-5.2woody2_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 153880 3b8cc02ca85fcb1add110a01c700446f 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 v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCC5NOW5ql+IAeqTIRAiR9AKCvbXz4/JUd8Hj5t8ECR58wEU+rqACgi827 Pi/PLRfTp6jirqZuyEM0JTE= =NcYY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----