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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2004.0203 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 461-1
New calife packages fix buffer overflow
12 March 2004
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: calife
Publisher: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
Linux
Impact: Root Compromise
Access Required: Existing Account
CVE Names: CAN-2004-0188
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 461-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman
March 11th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : calife
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Ids : CAN-2004-0188
Debian bug : 235157
Calife, a program which provides super user privileges to specific
users, was found to contain a buffer overflow related to the
getpass(3) library function. A local attacker could potentially
exploit this vulnerability, given knowledge of a local user's password
and the presence of at least one entry in /etc/calife.auth, to execute
arbitrary code with root privileges.
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 2.8.4c-1woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.8.6-1.
We recommend that you update your calife package.
Upgrade Instructions
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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
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 573 8def6850642ea48816f119986071c08c
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 5929 787f026768175eedd4faa087468bf07e
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 67628 c78ff2bc3d3d42903d12b54e841a400f
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 24528 1f19f26e3739df4767249dc5f46dbde7
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 22086 fb858512bda4128cb6a7c5d73d3c7043
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 22446 03096dc8a5bd5b020fa6e6d27591d780
Intel IA-64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 26084 b77f33b501c0402c6882922431161ba3
HP Precision architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 22922 620682272cbacd5dae78f2842555265c
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 22208 7f904162126847bd6cdedb536321841f
Big endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 22658 2b6f0cf00246471330f2297fd747d63b
Little endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 22614 a5228887a678ff52d1a68e03df4d7f56
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 22698 efaddbb63bed475b34ed5188b06cf8b5
IBM S/390 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 22928 5020310cf3c4800fde1f0a26b0ac0f3d
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 24936 75c41bd8275d8be77d289ae4aaaea0d8
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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