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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2010.0087
New lintian packages fix multiple vulnerabilities
28 January 2010
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: lintian
Publisher: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 5
Debian GNU/Linux 4
Impact/Access: Unauthorised Access -- Existing Account
Read-only Data Access -- Existing Account
Modify Arbitrary Files -- Existing Account
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2009-4015 CVE-2009-4014 CVE-2009-4013
Original Bulletin:
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1979
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1979-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Raphael Geissert
January 27, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : lintian
Vulnerability : multiple
Problem type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2009-4013 CVE-2009-4014 CVE-2009-4015
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in lintian,
a Debian package checker. The following Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures project ids have been assigned to identify them:
CVE-2009-4013: missing control files sanitation
Control field names and values were not sanitised before using them
in certain operations that could lead to directory traversals.
Patch systems' control files were not sanitised before using them
in certain operations that could lead to directory traversals.
An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to overwrite
arbitrary files or disclose system information.
CVE-2009-4014: format string vulnerabilities
Multiple check scripts and the Lintian::Schedule module were using
user-provided input as part of the sprintf/printf format string.
CVE-2009-4015: arbitrary command execution
File names were not properly escaped when passing them as arguments
to certain commands, allowing the execution of other commands as
pipes or as a set of shell commands.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.23.28+etch1.
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.24.2.1+lenny1.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), these problems will be fixed
soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.3.2
We recommend that you upgrade your lintian 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 4.0 alias etch (oldstable)
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.28+etch1.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 322293 127f82c30379e65c24a53044143d00cc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.28+etch1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 824 f99d118c811bdd611fb4ee81b53c2684
Architecture independent packages:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.28+etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 275856 26cd4deb23c37aee3469c0eb2e86fd83
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny (stable)
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.24.2.1+lenny1.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 470561 7df7c88fa5add0762f6c7873f6601fbe
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.24.2.1+lenny1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1160 b38dd3251e8354b62d7a4191a88211ed
Architecture independent packages:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.24.2.1+lenny1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 358170 2ca70ec0a83fb608eca83c0beac8bf81
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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