-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-054-1 securityat_private http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman May 7, 2001 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : cron Problem type : local root exploit Debian-specific: no A recent (fall 2000) security fix to cron introduced an error in giving up privileges before invoking the editor. A malicious user could easily gain root access. This has been fixed in version 3.0pl1-57.3 (or 3.0pl1-67 for unstable). No exploits are known to exist, but we recommend that you upgrade your cron packages immediately. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato - --------------------------------- Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/cron_3.0pl1-57.3.diff.gz MD5 checksum: beef030f2642e0e3178cc1fcddd3601f http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/cron_3.0pl1-57.3.dsc MD5 checksum: 898496ede6e71287a50acabd0a9bfdc0 http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/cron_3.0pl1.orig.tar.gz MD5 checksum: 4c64aece846f8483daf440f8e3dd210f Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/cron_3.0pl1-57.3_alpha.deb MD5 checksum: b056a55f3d51d92390f6e4b7c09f8108 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/cron_3.0pl1-57.3_arm.deb MD5 checksum: 0ebd5904db1e137caa53e83d085f5973 Intel ia32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/cron_3.0pl1-57.3_i386.deb MD5 checksum: 6a11a3427bd263429f8189054b67add7 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/cron_3.0pl1-57.3_m68k.deb MD5 checksum: eb9993da9cc3c5d5188866ca453c0ab7 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/cron_3.0pl1-57.3_powerpc.deb MD5 checksum: 17d1109ce6eeb714a09f864bb244f804 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/cron_3.0pl1-57.3_sparc.deb MD5 checksum: 9486a5eaa675ada6a5bbfaca2fa2a9ef These packages will be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ . - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announceat_private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBOvaQ46jZR/ntlUftAQECygL+JpAyqdenwYVze5UrEPsxpELUEiZYWpDm JAxiOGDcPC3qg5O67pyGNXpKuEKNnBHOzHMumG58l/YfklgkuvwldW8DDBpiaiN+ n/bQyMI61UoOvlfNRNSXxYPDvDRjuhlY =WIum -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-announce-requestat_private with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmasterat_private
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