-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 930-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp Jan 9, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vulnerability : format string attack Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-0083 Ulf Harnhammar from the Debian Security Audit project discovered a format string attack in the logging code of smstools, which may be exploited to execute arbitary code with root privileges. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain smstools package. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.14.8-1sarge0. For the unstable distribution the package will be updated shortly. We recommend that you upgrade your smstools package. Upgrade Instructions - -------------------- 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 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: smstools_1.14.8-1sarge0.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 5106 ef55852ce6da003ef5f45df6eed1a8c5 smstools_1.14.8-1sarge0.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 624 1e69b0c4a20ce7f08bce8a8b51b8504d smstools_1.14.8.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 158423 85b342e53d7fdde89ef25ad21e1c5fe0 Alpha architecture: smstools_1.14.8-1sarge0_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 184268 59ca41ecd61cc94de2b63c8698464732 AMD64 architecture: smstools_1.14.8-1sarge0_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 178130 f957b798e9de3075e013521bbf6241d6 ARM architecture: smstools_1.14.8-1sarge0_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 173506 aa2b0df1d47ad50070aebacc266f729d HP Precision architecture: smstools_1.14.8-1sarge0_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 180032 168dba93586bc10214fbb6a5914f962e Intel IA-32 architecture: smstools_1.14.8-1sarge0_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 166816 aee3afc84707f7190c255ed3739c2958 Intel IA-64 architecture: smstools_1.14.8-1sarge0_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 201440 9868ead0f8885bc3851137b23d76877d Motorola 680x0 architecture: smstools_1.14.8-1sarge0_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 166452 d713ee667bee3c3186ba477f9d0f91a8 Big endian MIPS architecture: smstools_1.14.8-1sarge0_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 182332 846d0a829680db2b3662982c9fe49d4f Little endian MIPS architecture: smstools_1.14.8-1sarge0_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 182004 db7200f1504ea22681e23e749435c22a PowerPC architecture: smstools_1.14.8-1sarge0_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 172100 183e00f44548fce56df228441593bb90 IBM S/390 architecture: smstools_1.14.8-1sarge0_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 179978 ab77f608c71a908bc51e7781b51c416d Sun Sparc architecture: smstools_1.14.8-1sarge0_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 175994 a03ff752a8910e397e73f53649c5a931 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ' and http://packages.debian.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBQ8JqBw0hVr09l8FJAQJy/gP/UZSH1kGcChkhTtfJpoKg3nlY+J/52zz/ ntrygXJXVHOcVd6RJmtquhhKEaQ1z9Z2e3m4EEXKC4AIIO2xtT0hKvMogWgO9khV aF/OPBOI5xhwxqMzdRHE9aUwvEfgjITKwsvF+kU1TSJQpqqxYXmdW0CiTfiWJujy FMeeVok9jHM= =6NPA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----