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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2006.0448 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian] New ppp packages fix privilege escalation 10 July 2006 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: ppp Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX) Impact: Root Compromise Access: Existing Account CVE Names: CVE-2006-2194 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1106 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1106-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze July 10th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : ppp Vulnerability : programming error Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-2194 Marcus Meissner discovered that the winbind plugin in pppd does not check whether a setuid() call has been successful when trying to drop privileges, which may fail with some PAM configurations. The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.4rel-1. We recommend that you upgrade your ppp 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 at the end of this advisory: 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/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 633 1b8f1f8da7cf7b56c2c6e13e2072167d http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 83359 1fd6996f800c3d323b159ca5ab587712 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 697459 0537b03fb51cbb847290abdbb765cb93 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp-dev_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 32072 77bab82e596987e60908f19c27bceeb6 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 393308 5f90be499af49912e7074c26979037db AMD64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 346172 ae546c9f5f4f0bc2fdebab8858c93731 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 326134 aab781148123790027eb4bf114cc8df9 Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 324274 759537119b8680ed4e27ae09a52a65aa Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 437432 8a0acb4779046622af9c27a6307fa305 HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 357572 5c415d1e9a6e31fdb01b2eb7f8f1065f Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 305432 4e7f194f247899a3d20280eca53e41ba Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 348852 aca3c70a1be8c013a48e6d939ebe036a Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 351084 7cd743087a4155ff0d9e8085cbee7dbf PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 351188 60f69689787965812f891df34371600a IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 343302 65648a90f1ab9abb71121ceeb9bb98a5 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 329684 1df0e5a6621da5344bdb91a1fd4eef3e 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) iD8DBQFEsfHjW5ql+IAeqTIRAkTfAKCLnv7ChQkOQEADsnOb2DN62EYSPACfQuEe tlTFWEenK/Md71yip8pQWEA= =Rb17 - -----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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