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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2002.035 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 102-1
New at packages fix heap corruption vulnerability
18 January 2002
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: at
Vendor: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
Linux
UNIX
Platform: Alpha
ARM
i386
Motorola 680x0
PowerPC
SPARC
Impact: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands
Access Required: Existing Account
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 102-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
January 16th, 2002
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Package : at
Vulnerability : daemon exploit
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
zen-parse found a bug in the current implementation of at which leads
into a heap corruption vulnerability which in turn could potentially
lead into an exploit of the daemon user.
We recommend that you upgrade your at packages.
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 2.2 alias potato
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/at_3.1.8-10.1.dsc
MD5 checksum: 5050a81922314ee1a01582e62ffdb00f
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/at_3.1.8-10.1.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 9fec73d790aa854411bf02ae49888224
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/at_3.1.8.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 1e83522666118b3eab4cb8e345e6da5a
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/at_3.1.8-10.1_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 9520a63861b8264d6811996b9b2f878d
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/at_3.1.8-10.1_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: a9b005d56ca131cceb6625ccb1d03ee5
Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/at_3.1.8-10.1_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: 8af8ea462718b6bee748b2a809834d2e
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/at_3.1.8-10.1_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: b836db6d112d9c29f0f8c12b13511f3e
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/at_3.1.8-10.1_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: 21a24bfe018ee300ecb30a6d851f201b
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/at_3.1.8-10.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: 032d0e4f32b903e26ddb0939499841c6
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
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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 <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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