-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1722-1 security@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff February 11, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : libpam-heimdal Vulnerability : programming error Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2009-0361 Derek Chan discovered that the PAM module for the Heimdal Kerberos implementation allows reinitialisation of user credentials when run from a setuid context, resulting in potential local denial of service by overwriting the credential cache file or to local privilege escalation. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5-1etch1. For the upcoming stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.10-2.1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your libpam-heimdal 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 4.0 alias etch - ------------------------------- Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-heimdal/libpam-heimdal_2.5-1etch1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 699 09e39eb1552950761fdcc51babceef11 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-heimdal/libpam-heimdal_2.5-1etch1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 8208 3e178b9617aadc2e030c07fec659330c http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-heimdal/libpam-heimdal_2.5.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 117834 a80c66fcf0c48608abfb5ff0c443ab94 amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-heimdal/libpam-heimdal_2.5-1etch1_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 38348 a9b7ddbb56515616567b46ead7d48213 arm architecture (ARM) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-heimdal/libpam-heimdal_2.5-1etch1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 36226 bdfaa1037d3b02494f28d2da628e038f hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-heimdal/libpam-heimdal_2.5-1etch1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 39432 f721ac5acbaeb33f26c6387ccc4e73da i386 architecture (Intel ia32) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-heimdal/libpam-heimdal_2.5-1etch1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 37652 c1b56b35fb35c0d700de6ea53d753a4e ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-heimdal/libpam-heimdal_2.5-1etch1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 43594 2238be62f72a01bbac329d2b5dc0bbe4 mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-heimdal/libpam-heimdal_2.5-1etch1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 37544 80164efa305002d37aeb9c67b1a41f09 mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-heimdal/libpam-heimdal_2.5-1etch1_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 37534 7d911ce54e2e8f078f117984ffbe4b97 powerpc architecture (PowerPC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-heimdal/libpam-heimdal_2.5-1etch1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 39256 076218cc619f405bb07016ecb2eeaef6 s390 architecture (IBM S/390) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-heimdal/libpam-heimdal_2.5-1etch1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 38826 be7ee31cad3f876e7f2a343d8cf9f413 sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-heimdal/libpam-heimdal_2.5-1etch1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 37166 bc2d46af607a9acd7978f6973cdc5ecf 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 v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmTPPMACgkQXm3vHE4uylpNrQCgubliWx2XLOuiece2KpczkcsC FEwAn1OXJGgjyV3dIyGX6opMEM5nwfrc =k2FA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----