-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1342-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff July 30th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : xfs Vulnerability : race condition Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2007-3103 It was discovered that a race condition in the init.d script of the X Font Server allows the modification of file permissions of arbitrary files if the local administrator can be tricked into restarting the X font server. For the oldstable distribution (sarge) xfs is present as part of the monolithic xfree86 package. A fix will be provided along with a future security update. For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-6. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-2. We recommend that you upgrade your xfs 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 4.0 alias etch - ------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 794 938a05eb2b1638fc49b4d7101084c69b http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 28440 0eeacd5783c66b937eaa1dbde6145401 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 174623 32e8b6b24ec3d4c0de11d81061640cc2 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 75520 0becb7909f5d9df1621d1a8b153eab2b AMD64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 65224 632e1a2416a91e079fe16f19f8c18f37 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 61330 41a50afe7ca54708028f8929ef9f62a8 HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 68312 31b1450c324283337298f0671491eddd Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 56856 40191532dd37541d09a9ff62bf9e6189 Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 97348 31aacc8828c1dc532db8d5b630de5f5c Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 69112 c0797a23074512e31edeef83a57817b5 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 69032 3a44f04fd9e3f4b84fd03889bcebeb56 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 64512 00d156e38ef0cf5f5257ae90cef496a2 IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 67514 710d362f9183b98f817736e466c89d35 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfs/xfs_1.0.1-6_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 57382 8a32daa22fd7630ff4101e21a4cfaf7d 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 v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGrjNiXm3vHE4uyloRAhvlAJ4nmQhLJ6wDlPAERwZzjpYpxkZ16wCfYlXi PaqM+Ogp8Y8Ad+BI11/VjtU= =f8Uy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----