Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 11:28:21 +0100 (CET)
From: (Martin Schulze) <[email protected]>
To: (Debian Security Announcements) <[email protected]>
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA 079-2] New UUCP packages finally fix uucp uid/gid access
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 079-2 [email protected]http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
February 8th, 2002
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Package : uucp
Vulnerability : uucp uid/gid access
Problem-Type : local and remote
Debian-specific: no
Zenith Parsec discovered a security hole in Taylor UUCP 1.06.1. It
permits a local user to copy any file to anywhere which is writable by
the uucp uid, which effectively means that a local user can completely
subvert the UUCP subsystem, including stealing mail, etc.
If a remote user with UUCP access is able to create files on the local
system, and can successfully make certain guesses about the local
directory structure layout, then the remote user can also subvert the
UUCP system. A default installation of UUCP will permit a remote user
to create files on the local system if the UUCP public directory has
been created with world write permissions.
Obviously this security hole is serious for anybody who uses UUCP on a
multi-user system with untrusted users, or anybody who uses UUCP and
permits connections from untrusted remote systems.
It was thought that this problem has been fixed with DSA 079-1, but
that didn't fix all variations of the problem. The problem is fixed
in version 1.06.1-11potato2 of uucp which uses a patch from the
upstream author Ian Lance Taylor.
We recommend that you upgrade your uucp packages immediately.
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 2.2 alias potato
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/uucp_1.06.1-11potato2.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 2c712e69b3b529f30153daf8b21e2bab
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/uucp_1.06.1-11potato2.dsc
MD5 checksum: 4f2b87605425e9d291efebb8428e5df4
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/uucp_1.06.1.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 390af5277915fcadbeee74d2f3038af9
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/uucp_1.06.1-11potato2_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 802b9176a7d288f396483e02c70fe3e7
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/uucp_1.06.1-11potato2_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: e3cc46ac6b268471b7a42c428a47bb64
Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/uucp_1.06.1-11potato2_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: 3cb57a9ad76d42dbc5d2559d585b39d1
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/uucp_1.06.1-11potato2_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 34ac6394a622f0e492288d9a33b0a67a
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/uucp_1.06.1-11potato2_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: 7dd85581fcc2547df432060c2ca9afa9
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/uucp_1.06.1-11potato2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: f6460f4436d521140d15ee2c4d6dee17
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
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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: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<;pkg>
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