[SECURITY] [DSA 173-1] New bugzilla packages fix privilege escalation

From: Martin Schulze (joeyat_private)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 07:35:13 PDT

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    Debian Security Advisory DSA 173-1                     securityat_private
    http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
    October 9th, 2002                       http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package        : bugzilla
    Vulnerability  : privilege escalation
    Problem-Type   : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    
    The developers of Bugzilla, a web-based bug tracking system,
    discovered a problem in the handling of more than 47 groups.  When a
    new product is added to an installation with 47 groups or more and
    "usebuggroups" is enabled, the new group will be assigned a groupset
    bit using Perl math that is not exact beyond 2^48.  This results in
    the new group being defined with a "bit" that has several bits set.
    As users are given access to the new group, those users will also gain
    access to spurious lower group privileges.  Also, group bits were not
    always reused when groups were deleted.
    
    This problem has been fixed in version 2.14.2-0woody2 for the current
    stable distribution (woody) and will soon be fixed in the unstable
    distribution (sid).  The old stable distribution (potato) doesn't
    contain a bugzilla package.
    
    We recommend that you upgrade your bugzilla package.
    
    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
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      Source archives:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bugzilla/bugzilla_2.14.2-0woody2.dsc
          Size/MD5 checksum:      621 7d349c9c1d7839c5e7476d6c1c103fd0
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bugzilla/bugzilla_2.14.2-0woody2.diff.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum:    37231 4e5d176101d70d2cec42204c1cfed71d
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bugzilla/bugzilla_2.14.2.orig.tar.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum:   933766 0c60df541e63e33d92ac9ba0fbb05be3
    
      Architecture independent components:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bugzilla/bugzilla-doc_2.14.2-0woody2_all.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   489348 de8dbc7aa0b14d6e798a8cc94760ae19
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bugzilla/bugzilla_2.14.2-0woody2_all.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   273932 74eedc712211c3d740291333ffc7e022
    
    
      These files will probably 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-announceat_private
    Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/>
    
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