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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2009.1030
ocsinventory-agent
8 July 2009
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: ocsinventory-agent
Publisher: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 5
UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Windows
Impact/Access: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Existing Account
CVE Names: CVE-2009-0667
Original Bulletin:
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1828
Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on
platforms other than Debian. It is recommended that administrators
running ocsinventory-agent check for an updated version of the
software for their operating system.
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1828-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde
July 7th, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : ocsinventory-agent
Vulnerability : insecure module search path
Problem type : local
Debian-specific: no
Debian bug : 506416
CVE ID : CVE-2009-0667
It was discovered that the ocsinventory-agent which is part of the
ocsinventory suite, a hardware and software configuration indexing service,
is prone to an insecure perl module search path. As the agent is started
via cron and the current directory (/ in this case) is included in the
default perl module path the agent scans every directory on the system
for its perl modules. This enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code
via a crafted ocsinventory-agent perl module placed on the system.
The oldstable distribution (etch) does not contain ocsinventory-agent.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:0.0.9.2repack1-4lenny1.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:0.0.9.2repack1-5
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:0.0.9.2repack1-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your ocsinventory-agent packages.
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 5.0 alias lenny
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Debian (stable)
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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64,
mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/ocsinventory-agent/ocsinventory-agent_0.0.9.2repack1-4lenny1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1334 cf43f5ea659d2ec4d4b854953e8c18c6
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/ocsinventory-agent/ocsinventory-agent_0.0.9.2repack1.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 207786 ce09d43d41596641dbb1bd66dc4f2b62
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/ocsinventory-agent/ocsinventory-agent_0.0.9.2repack1-4lenny1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 12171 d718e83817905e2e22edcfa25fa863b4
Architecture independent packages:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/ocsinventory-agent/ocsinventory-agent_0.0.9.2repack1-4lenny1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 83362 1d103ed0bb2520dfb3fc8b430ae30a6c
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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