-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 428-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman January 20th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : slocate Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Ids : CAN-2003-0848 A vulnerability was discovered in slocate, a program to index and search for files, whereby a specially crafted database could overflow a heap-based buffer. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local attacker to gain the privileges of the "slocate" group, which can access the global database containing a list of pathnames of all files on the system, including those which should only be visible to privileged users. This problem, and a category of potential similar problems, have been fixed by modifying slocate to drop privileges before reading a user-supplied database. For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.6-1.3.2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. Refer to Debian bug #226103 for status information. We recommend that you update your slocate 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 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 550 c7f271bba7c5a72afb00d43c23a04b79 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 7956 4e7a025fe5ec8239ae851dc68a533332 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 69213 08b1902323d686130a6daaca1fac61fc Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 28252 48d6e572d33b4c323287ef1ff5e518a9 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 25738 6fa6e7d8e667fb177e957bcdd55180a6 Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 25236 f933cdc3212314e1ac466c9c7a475783 Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 31678 ec2b14f300b9d3f8ef181fcf098f2321 HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 27342 e381228bd7f449cef8f83e9650780f40 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 24766 9c97e390e83c686c55a62ed6e4de9b89 Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 26036 aeeb915edaed844e6660c3e8357d1500 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.1_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 25592 fabe9486658781a7584a583e07370442 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 26132 cfc21b52bf0b7cb709d8d885747eedee IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 26196 1cf03d61937b7fc9763939fe1ee799a4 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/slocate/slocate_2.6-1.3.2_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 28456 ad26841de8d50097e83d2f8111b965f5 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFADXXKArxCt0PiXR4RAjphAKDSbPmxLiGRy+OWosbniJOh2NIbxQCgyIkp rXysPXyJJaJG5s0CQNMIJ4M= =5dVS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
