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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2006.0469 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian]
New rssh packages fix privilege escalation
17 July 2006
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: rssh
Publisher: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1
UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Impact: Inappropriate Access
Access: Existing Account
CVE Names: CVE-2006-1320
Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1109
Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on
platforms other than Debian. It is recommended that administrators
using rssh check for an updated version of the software for their
operating system at http://www.pizzashack.org/rssh/.
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1109-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
July 16th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : rssh
Vulnerability : programming error
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2006-1320
Debian Bug : 346322
Russ Allbery discovered that rssh, a restricted shell, performs
insufficient checking of incoming commands, which might lead to a bypass
of access restrictions.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.3-1.sarge.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.0-1.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your rssh 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 3.1 alias sarge
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 589 a8ccbaa1d14d0aa30b3eb0bb1aefd4e5
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 52207 00e3ad8c7944ed55e1316e414ab3d388
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 107216 74f40a4fd5d2b097af34a817e21a33cf
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 48782 0388514b947030f42219c9a615527dd9
AMD64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 44472 021a58e5c2591e2a15e4f1804816aa7b
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 41974 98eb40b5011e7868b02edfc07591f005
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 42596 7236c31d25f8b4cbbb8894112aa585aa
Intel IA-64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 55530 9c61a904a78c4c6d93763cdb73f9c009
HP Precision architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 44098 334ae1019286051be323bf6994d51c99
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 41522 0efafd5a441d6d392d1a2490bfb2dcc4
Big endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 49520 7126170731d1b5ad12d7afb6d68c16b7
Little endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 49546 7d8859c87eeb09f3b2502cfbed3c3f66
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 42936 f68184985e1ec6c27518ac74404afbec
IBM S/390 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 42596 29243bae45e1dca2c07ca609617c0bfa
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 42532 59db16aa282bc182f79418fdd99341c0
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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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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