debian-goodies - privilege escalation

Thomas de Grenier de Latour discovered that the checkrestart tool in the
debian-goodies suite of utilities, allowed local users to gain privileges
via shell metacharacters in the name of the executable file for a running
process.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.24+sarge1.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.27+etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.34.

We recommend that you upgrade your debian-goodies package.