[SECURITY] New versions of cfengine fixes symlink attack

The maintainer of Debian GNU/Linux cfengine package found a error in the way cfengine handles temporary files when it runs the tidy action on homedirectories, which makes it suspectible to a symlink attack. The author has been notified of the problem but has not released a fix yet. We recommend y...

[SECURITY] New version of ssh may fix buffer overflows

There has been a lot of confusion over ssh lately: some people think their systems have been hacked through ssh, although nobody has been able to produce an exploit. To avoid any possible problems we have patched ssh to fix any possible buffer overruns. We think this will stop any attack that mig...

[SECURITY] New version of fte fixes access problems

We have found that the fte package as supplied in our slink frozen and potato unstable archives does not drop its root priviliges after initializing the virtual console device. This allows all users to read and write files with root priviliges, and execute all programs as root. A new package...

[SECURITY] New version of zgv fixes buffer overflows

We have received reports that the zgv package is vulnerable to buffer overflows. We recommend you upgrade your zgv package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 alias hamm ------------------------------- This...

[SECURITY] New versions of junkbuster fixes buffer overflows

We have received reports that junkbuster had a couple buffer overflow vulnerabilities. We fixed those in version 2.0-3.2. All later version are also not vulnerable. The patches were backported from 2.0.2 . We recommend you upgrade your junkbuster package immediately. wget url will fetch the file...

[SECURITY] New versions of junkbuster fixes buffer overflows

We have received reports that junkbuster had a couple buffer overflow vulnerabilities. We fixed those in version 2.0-3.2. All later version are also not vulnerable. The patches were backported from 2.0.2 . We recommend you upgrade your junkbuster package immediately. wget url will fetch the file...

[SECURITY] New versions of tcsh fixes buffer overflows

We have found that the tcsh shell had a problem with very long pathnames. When a very long path was encountered tcsh failed to check the result of getcwd in all places, which could be exploited. We recommend you upgrade your tcsh package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i...

[SECURITY] New versions of bash fixes buffer overflows

We have received reports that the bash shell had a problem with very long pathnames. When a very long path was encountered bash failed to check the result of getcwd in all places, which could be exploited. We recommend you upgrade your bash package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for yo...

[SECURITY] New versions of bash fixes buffer overflows

We have received reports that the bash shell had a problem with very long pathnames. When a very long path was encountered bash failed to check the result of getcwd in all places, which could be exploited. We recommend you upgrade your bash package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for yo...

[SECURITY] New version of bind fixes buffer overflows

We have received reports that the nslookup and dig utilities as shipped with current distribution of Linux contain possible buffer overflows. We recommend you upgrade your bind package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian...

[SECURITY] New versions of netstd fixes root exploit in rpc.mountd

Description ----------- The Program rpc.mountd is a mount daemon that handles NFS mounts. The version as shipped with current distributions of Linux contains a buffer overflow. Impact ------ The overflow can be used as part of an attack to gain root access on the machine acting NFS server. We...

[SECURITY] New versions of bsdgames fixes sail /tmp race

The game sail as provided by the bsdgames package contained a /tmp race. This has been fixes. We recommend you upgrade your bsdgames package. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 alias hamm This version of Debian were release...

[SECURITY] New versions of apache fixes denial of services

We have received a report from Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav who says that the apache as distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 is vulnerable to a denial of services exploit, where repeated, identical headers can consume On^2 memory. We recommend you upgrade your apache package immediately. wget url...

[SECURITY] New versions of bsdgames fixes sail /tmp race

The game sail as provided by the bsdgames package contained a /tmp race. This has been fixes. We recommend you upgrade your bsdgames package. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 alias hamm ------------------------------- Thi...

[SECURITY] New versions of Mutt fixes buffer overflow

We have received a report from Paul Boehm stating that Mutt has an overflowable buffer in parse.c. When sending malicious mail you can execute arbitary code on the mutt running users system. We recommend you upgrade your Mutt package immediately. dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file...

[SECURITY] New versions of ncurses fixes security problem

We have received a report that using ncurses in setuid programs will give the user a way to open arbitrary files. We recommend you upgrade your ncurses3.4-dev package immediately. dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 alias hamm ------------------------------- Th...

[SECURITY] New versions of cfingerd fixes root compromise

We have received a report that a user can execute arbitrary commands from a .plan or .project file. While the option that would allow this is disabled by default the system is vulnerable if the system admin had this option enabled. We recommend you upgrade your cfingerd package immediately. dpkg ...

[SECURITY] New versions of file-runner fix security problem

We have received a report that the file-runner program opens files in /tmp in an unsecure manner. This can result in damaging other files when linked to them. We recommend you upgrade your file-runner package immediately. dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1...

[SECURITY] New versions of file-runner fix security problem

We have received a report that the file-runner program opens files in /tmp in an unsecure manner. This can result in damaging other files when linked to them. We recommend you upgrade your file-runner package immediately. dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1...

[SECURITY] Current versions of mailx fixes /tmp problem

Former versions of mailx used an unsecure means of opening files beneath /tmp for writing. This can be used to damage files in a users directory or even systemwide. We recommend you upgrade your mailx package immediately. dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1...