-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1040-1 security@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 24th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : gdm Vulnerability : programming error Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-1057 BugTraq ID : 17635 A vulnerability has been identified in gdm, a display manager for X, that could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges by exploiting a race condition in the handling of the .ICEauthority file. The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.0.8-1sarge2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed in version 2.14.1-1. We recommend that you upgrade your gdm 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 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 732 5e615263c621f3166eab26233249934b http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 258548 323d831f75f4a784b754ee4d6902120f http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 5619049 1417d176925a4a24c465c043df7b6a39 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3243636 3641c4ee397d6f70fa15b439da1ca29d AMD64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3178276 03057b54637e652dd37f98bf94e3b575 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3124804 beb9189cf49420259a51210c1864cc08 Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3144008 36c7dfed8ab7ece8d5b75fa720c6120d Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3328900 c6b11ef8670cb3f63d946e0779d65c3f HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3185510 486b1377061ad3655a34d17abc9ece23 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3115464 a002336849c45be8d7a70630a9dbe714 Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3155474 dea4b0e6dbb2b1a4ac0b5a90e9a93035 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3147934 19dc1118fec157e9ae4f7e40418a7cbb PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3172026 611508441a9bcd7df2bb3ac486a20da4 IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3185506 f03786d134fda10cfb7ce9c6b4e13044 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gdm/gdm_2.6.0.8-1sarge2_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3137658 ea03ac108174033db47559465da66184 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 v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFETHh4W5ql+IAeqTIRAmlPAJsGzMzVdLIzP+TIAApv2KwGk5DvewCfXvkY /IIixfg//EnflyUYGFnj/4E= =T3U7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
