DSA 725-1: New ppxp packages fix local root exploit
Posted on: 05/19/2005 02:36 PM
New ppxp packages are available for Debian GNU/Linux
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 725-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze May 19th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Package : ppxp Vulnerability : missing privilege release Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-0392
Jens Steube discovered that ppxp, yet another PPP program, does not release root privileges when opening potentially user supplied log files. This can be tricked into opening a root shell.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.2001080415-6woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.2001080415-11.
We recommend that you upgrade your ppxp 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 3.0 alias woody ---------------------------------