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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2006.0721 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian] New cscope packages fix arbitrary code execution 2 October 2006 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: cscope Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX) Impact: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands Access: Remote/Unauthenticated CVE Names: CVE-2006-4262 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1186 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1186-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff September 30th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : cscope Vulnerability : buffer overflows Problem-Type : local(remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-4262 Debian Bug : 385893 Will Drewry of the Google Security Team discovered several buffer overflows in cscope, a source browsing tool, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 15.5+cvs20060902-1. We recommend that you upgrade your cscope 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 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/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 597 288d126f1a8e75401bec5758d21fca6e http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 22685 efce07e2dbfdba7329ec88a143c811ad http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 243793 beb6032a301bb11524aec74bfb5e4840 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 164514 0a49e059085c6b7935d19ade91441abf AMD64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 152934 a10ede3f65739ef21806fd2eb139c572 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 147224 05f695127f6fcc7a934a4835c18d215c HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 158482 faf5225195dcb6b89fb22711ff45547e Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 143350 94dda40490e976fb3ba9a7aac7ea92d7 Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 181116 52a1b55bcaa05bfe5731e53c14316620 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 140118 762aebb7ffbdee7c6787c750b53cd02e Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 157354 87e2ffcf7dc6ebc10523391b29e1ab27 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 155750 a566cbfcd6689dca81b8730148f59965 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 154680 2a959a398cff553b7a7c51ce554b516e IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 154500 6dd06b7d5ba9b119a1daf0f23fc65d79 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 148314 585ad5bb0f6e591e7f54ce8c147d1cfb 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 v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFHnQXXm3vHE4uyloRApoOAJ0R5RwpS5X9HrDUfThRjPkttc9rSACgm/v4 XIfAMzASymPZv4x0KNZWrkU= =1IlY - -----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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