-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 664-1 security@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze February 2nd, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : cpio Vulnerability : broken file permissions Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-1999-1572 It has been discovered, that cpio, a program to manage archives of files, creates output files with -O and -F with broken permissions due to a reset zero umask which allows local users to read or overwrite those files. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-39woody1 For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your cpio 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/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 549 45ee6d04cffc59c6e0d125ab269d8672 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 22965 a5db2ad1ec00b2825bbdf4f0acaf8a84 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 181728 3e976db71229d52a8a135540698052df Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 73064 029c7d1de8bff5d6f63c7702455c0e17 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 63746 05f2cee18a28822b4fbe0d54f2b0efcf Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 61382 2011b7b05347a22780fe5a2d2da77923 Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 84938 173755073bd59fee905debce08456824 HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 69512 e950b2aa1f51a0f9412c319888882496 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 59714 c6c591c1839c464fb0cb2294d1758875 Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 69094 8aee70b66943403293252649d4879134 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 68806 9e761f1fe3d156c5c557d3a28d51ab37 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 64084 f0fa8bf78610ed20b6135b4c7c04436c IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 63866 ba0b403eaee5bcd05d8d0cbf3c48cfcb Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 65818 f5e0c10d8e46321e8c584454402512c5 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCAQZxW5ql+IAeqTIRAuIzAJ9i98Gz8/b3KtGg9Qa6cg4AlpHhNQCfRbdX CsCfKkVqVHWM/KjO5K32mOM= =evZF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----