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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2001.426 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 079-1
New UUCP packages fix local exploit
11 October 2001
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: uucp
Vendor: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
Linux
Unix
Platform: Alpha
ARM
i386
Motorola 680x0
PowerPC
Sparc
Impact: Increased Privileges
Access Required: Existing Account
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 079-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
September 24, 2001
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Package : uucp
Vulnerability : uucp uid/gid access
Problem-Type : local exploit
Debian-specific: no
zen-parse has found a problem with Taylor UUCP as distributed with
many GNU/Linux distributions. It was possible to make `uux' execute
`uucp' with malicious commandline arguments which gives an attacker
access to files owned by uid/gid uucp.
This problem has been fixed in version of 1.06.1-11potato1 for Debian
GNU/Linux 2.2 by using a patch that RedHat has provided.
We recommend that you upgrade your uucp package immediately.
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
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/uucp_1.06.1-11potato1.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 4e2f02a4abd2ce86ffb0e154ef5d162b
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/uucp_1.06.1-11potato1.dsc
MD5 checksum: fd358e7e14f32ffa16cd3f2e6137b05c
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/uucp_1.06.1.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 390af5277915fcadbeee74d2f3038af9
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/uucp_1.06.1-11potato1_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: c1ad1038530a5ee1a6fb92fb90be287f
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/uucp_1.06.1-11potato1_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: 5821d1b6b9bccfa7486183216ffc7dfa
Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/uucp_1.06.1-11potato1_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: deb9d76651686c2b0a2d51488e3cf0da
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/uucp_1.06.1-11potato1_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 37f78dceb1e6c3b492246c888a744af7
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/uucp_1.06.1-11potato1_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: e2a81774e4cd6c1eabbcf1c8fbf2e406
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/uucp_1.06.1-11potato1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: 28148692a588b9b0c9b7598d0084fd2a
These files will be moved into the stable distribution on its next
revision.
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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 <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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