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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2008.0739 -- [Linux][Debian] New refpolicy packages fix incompatible policy 28 July 2008 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: refpolicy Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Linux variants Impact: Provide Misleading Information Access: Remote/Unauthenticated CVE Names: CVE-2008-1447 Ref: AL-2008.0080 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1617 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1617-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Devin Carraway July 25, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : refpolicy Vulnerability : incompatible policy Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-1447 Debian Bug : 490271 In DSA-1603-1, Debian released an update to the BIND 9 domain name server, which introduced UDP source port randomization to mitigate the threat of DNS cache poisoning attacks (identified by the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project as CVE-2008-1447). The fix, while correct, was incompatible with the version of SELinux Reference Policy shipped with Debian Etch, which did not permit a process running in the named_t domain to bind sockets to UDP ports other than the standard 'domain' port (53). The incompatibility affects both the 'targeted' and 'strict' policy packages supplied by this version of refpolicy. This update to the refpolicy packages grants the ability to bind to arbitrary UDP ports to named_t processes. When installed, the updated packages will attempt to update the bind policy module on systems where it had been previously loaded and where the previous version of refpolicy was 0.0.20061018-5 or below. Because the Debian refpolicy packages are not yet designed with policy module upgradeability in mind, and because SELinux-enabled Debian systems often have some degree of site-specific policy customization, it is difficult to assure that the new bind policy can be successfully upgraded. To this end, the package upgrade will not abort if the bind policy update fails. The new policy module can be found at /usr/share/selinux/refpolicy-targeted/bind.pp after installation. Administrators wishing to use the bind service policy can reconcile any policy incompatibilities and install the upgrade manually thereafter. A more detailed discussion of the corrective procedure may be found here: http://wiki.debian.org/SELinux/Issues/BindPortRandomization For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.20061018-5.1+etch1. The unstable distribution (sid) is not affected, as subsequent refpolicy releases have incorporated an analogous change. We recommend that you upgrade your refpolicy packages. 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 4.0 alias etch - - ------------------------------- Debian (stable) - - --------------- Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/refpolicy/refpolicy_0.0.20061018.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 571487 1bb326ee1b8aea1fa93c3bd86a3007ee http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/refpolicy/refpolicy_0.0.20061018-5.1+etch1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 53515 bd171f0cfa9adc59d451d176fb32c913 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/refpolicy/refpolicy_0.0.20061018-5.1+etch1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 859 52bc8ea0cab864e990e9dacc4db3b678 Architecture independent packages: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/refpolicy/selinux-policy-refpolicy-strict_0.0.20061018-5.1+etch1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1541610 626c93fc13beaa01ff151d9103a7860b http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/refpolicy/selinux-policy-refpolicy-doc_0.0.20061018-5.1+etch1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 289230 b082a861eda93f9bc06dd2e2f03ba89d http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/refpolicy/selinux-policy-refpolicy-targeted_0.0.20061018-5.1+etch1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1288314 c00ed4f0ea4ddbb8dd945c24c710c788 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/refpolicy/selinux-policy-refpolicy-src_0.0.20061018-5.1+etch1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 595490 841f616c8f08b22ed7077c21c1065026 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/refpolicy/selinux-policy-refpolicy-dev_0.0.20061018-5.1+etch1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 418666 bee3f41fe8771b7b88693937814494a3 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 v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIiXEoU5XKDemr/NIRAsPnAKCU2flJrRQW3BH+/3w2uLCVvMfuoQCeLu5c lrY8qcAbBTL9mGc9hoh76sw= =lFbM - -----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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