-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1981-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Steffen Joeris January 28, 2010 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : maildrop Vulnerability : privilege escalation Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id : No CVE id yet Debian Bug : 564601 Christoph Anton Mitterer discovered that maildrop, a mail delivery agent with filtering abilities, is prone to a privilege escalation issue that grants a user root group privileges. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.4-3+lenny1. For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.2-11+etch1. For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your maildrop packages. 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 - ------------------------------- Debian (oldstable) - ------------------ Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 736 5d4c1da5e17a5055431958284386d2ae http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 3217622 d799e44aa65027a02343e5e08b97f3a0 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 13865 bbbbb2f714d5aafbca2255ae600ed4d4 alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 396270 721dac0bfe0adfe12821648b114b529b amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 363334 361b1d09e6029290979f22eef0fdba91 arm architecture (ARM) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 349906 8fee827790bdc6698f3597e12fe52d6f hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 388340 08b9be87f2c3cc52c620db2adbfcacef i386 architecture (Intel ia32) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 355822 0a4b406123abee445305109c4915ba23 ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 469936 91586db32dc8713252dd82239ae0eda8 mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 376078 1ab6b5a13b76f428dac12534de3caa01 powerpc architecture (PowerPC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 361516 932ec47bae8d8e0415cc34b9ef01da38 s390 architecture (IBM S/390) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.2-11+etch1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 366974 f39b7f1d816f17060e5b0253426a9438 Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny - -------------------------------- Debian (stable) - --------------- Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 1137 fc8c7f28371afe62703db1c24103f348 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 3566630 78e6c27afe7eff9e132b8bc20087aae7 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 807697 85669f0b67c38a7e55e3f22e9431ea65 alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 401854 c19dc4ca2946033b4fdeb85fed6d86e1 amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 371578 1a3079eaa90d5665de73671a7f478d2e arm architecture (ARM) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 350228 2e2614f28b004dbfbc51ed1ab6a90771 armel architecture (ARM EABI) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_armel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 347804 66b6ff4506f5376c92bfc9c5e5fc6fd6 hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 388948 34f00537866981c9613aa7ac4ef16e5f i386 architecture (Intel ia32) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 359326 1e1b2e94312f7074321d5b11dc3524f5 ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 466472 f2e570b2fcd4835f2fe69449aa95e069 mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 375164 7fd35c034b5008d27cfd2cfedd106e16 mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 375880 f94835ac5be58099a0b9fa7168dd53d8 powerpc architecture (PowerPC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 380282 a84766802c113e9635589ed9d921a09d s390 architecture (IBM S/390) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/maildrop/maildrop_2.0.4-3+lenny1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 375186 ed49ebd7e0c72e3d602e12b2d24d5464 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 v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkthdtEACgkQ62zWxYk/rQfg0wCfXm9vMdq9EQoi110uCINx4Ldh GfMAn0c9DJpPfaduM3XyrKflV2OZBFJ1 =R7Fz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----