-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1755-1 security@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff March 25, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : systemtap Vulnerability : race condition Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2009-0784 Erik Sjoelund discovered that a race condition in the stap tool shipped by Systemtap, an instrumentation system for Linux 2.6, allows local privilege escalation for members of the stapusr group. The old stable distribution (etch) isn't affected. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.20080705-1+lenny1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.20090314-2. We recommend that you upgrade your systemtap 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 5.0 alias lenny - -------------------------------- Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/systemtap/systemtap_0.0.20080705.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 880805 8f14c7b79561392e7ec91187ed09f3be http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/systemtap/systemtap_0.0.20080705-1+lenny1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 12603 b08a9943746e474ed2aa6ed4bc9fc438 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/systemtap/systemtap_0.0.20080705-1+lenny1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 1420 bfbaeb5d86bfd6876a04e562dc8c69ec amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/systemtap/systemtap_0.0.20080705-1+lenny1_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1250966 d8368769f30ecaa915839a1fc937899d arm architecture (ARM) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/systemtap/systemtap_0.0.20080705-1+lenny1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1309852 7e006ca8bfa2bd36484bd25dda6dcb4c i386 architecture (Intel ia32) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/systemtap/systemtap_0.0.20080705-1+lenny1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1249882 ed02a4eb92c671f18702b69df5ade6d5 ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/systemtap/systemtap_0.0.20080705-1+lenny1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1441448 7da28afa66b41d81322cf5614cb9af93 powerpc architecture (PowerPC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/systemtap/systemtap_0.0.20080705-1+lenny1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1269934 3016e60eb5dbab1b617bf088d807489c s390 architecture (IBM S/390) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/systemtap/systemtap_0.0.20080705-1+lenny1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1227546 9edb1baaa6a126a405674be0a9dcf12c 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) iEYEARECAAYFAknKnv4ACgkQXm3vHE4uylrGJwCg0zjilkzsim8hlQlZbA66IYPM o5wAoJh9K6qOLsHRa4CqwJ2eRiK40lkb =UMKo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
