Secunia Security Advisory - Debian has issued an update for afuse. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Debian update for afuse
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31131
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31131/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation
WHERE:
Local system
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
http://secunia.com/product/13844/
Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias sid
http://secunia.com/product/530/
DESCRIPTION:
Debian has issued an update for afuse. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated
privileges.
For more information:
SA31086
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.
-- Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch --
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 3699 645246f8f338b76b6d6785fff9997c5a
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 657 fe408099626f3bad3bc68d2717df2a9b
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 98171 95cce7d6ed8e984d0ff2d650e6beb167
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 15476 465baebb172ecda5ed1e7bdd174fddac
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 14224 5e5dca72cb191bf0d435f770c62e07f5
arm architecture (ARM)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 12448 f39bc75bceec2e8979a514bda07164d6
hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 14602 603022ee85f781d0c8c155936d432484
i386 architecture (Intel ia32)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 13086 b422ac9cb737dd1fb7827eb6ea222bba
ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 17730 9fc41e69a8df1ddee15831b971ededb1
mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 14232 69ebaa63e04dd9a16ad8ff5a772dc576
mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 14282 9dabd8530851c9588c4927f53cf923d2
powerpc architecture (PowerPC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 13582 c6c86e8600353b4ff4ed66c9608fd7d0
s390 architecture (IBM S/390)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 14154 b36cc8bab5a28d13430a18697bb4b85c
sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 12562 ff0fd7531cc011d032f74c78ae17ca0e
-- Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias sid --
Fixed in version 0.2-3.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00194.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA31086:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31086/
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