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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2006.0347 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian] New kphone packages fix information disclosure 23 May 2006 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: kphone Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX) Impact: Read-only Data Access Access: Existing Account CVE Names: CVE-2006-2442 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1062 Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on platforms other than Debian. It is recommended that administrators running KPhone check for an updated version of the software for their operating system at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kphone - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1062-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff May 19th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : kphone Vulnerability : insecure file creation Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-2442 Debian Bug : 337830 Sven Dreyer discovered that KPhone, a Voice over IP client for KDE, creates a configuration file world-readable, which could leak sensitive information like SIP passwords. The the old stable distribution (woody) doesn't contain kphone packages. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.0-2sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.2-6. We recommend that you upgrade your kphone package. If your current kphonerc has too lax permissions, you'll need to reset them manually. 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 3.1 alias sarge - - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 617 8ae2a2b2de1a1b8bec866ebdf80c19a5 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 5549 f1eaf0a90d21add053ccf55224d92dad http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 278918 d226b44d34e99887e3169ddd52a4684d Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 508416 791a3100d4afc06824cf3ccf14c53408 AMD64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 392966 861d930b1cd2b6f48d5c6812b7f13d9b ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 471016 039242b5a961a3ee1c7ec9ebb9b95da3 Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 381318 d0203159c05f9e69d0df7f686b56b83a Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 629790 48d03ebfa1d9b37e4ec179a6ebec30bc HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 581040 076f0b97e587664cecc86f47286d0fc1 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 429470 c89a81b425acb793bca20349f7f02bd7 Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 412354 8e1ca8d30e7b805d003d1b2fe7b2ddfe Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 411060 f8ee56ae8a66d7b28a48de2ad7763f2f PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 414244 e238049a1b5bb4035024460f77df4145 IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 352368 83baf45d1c86eb13e9e178a95c20128d Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kphone/kphone_4.1.0-2sarge1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 402408 de3a4a8af85d5b76d3fe4672cea34efa 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 <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEbhG2Xm3vHE4uyloRArJ/AJ43mlnVvO1BCpDHCM8B1lbZKPVuNQCgo/wv GxOnwCJcJAxQAG9TU4ocqdU= =dZbt - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --------------------------END INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- You have received this e-mail bulletin as a result of your organisation's registration with AusCERT. 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