[SECURITY] [DSA-054-1] cron local root exploit
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 06:25:39 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA-054-1] cron local root exploit
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-054-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman
May 7, 2001
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Package : cron
Problem type : local root exploit
Debian-specific: no
A recent (fall 2000) security fix to cron introduced an error in giving
up privileges before invoking the editor. A malicious user could
easily gain root access.
This has been fixed in version 3.0pl1-57.3 (or 3.0pl1-67 for unstable).
No exploits are known to exist, but we recommend that you upgrade your
cron packages immediately.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/cron_3.0pl1-57.3.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: beef030f2642e0e3178cc1fcddd3601f
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/cron_3.0pl1-57.3.dsc
MD5 checksum: 898496ede6e71287a50acabd0a9bfdc0
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/cron_3.0pl1.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 4c64aece846f8483daf440f8e3dd210f
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/cron_3.0pl1-57.3_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: b056a55f3d51d92390f6e4b7c09f8108
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/cron_3.0pl1-57.3_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: 0ebd5904db1e137caa53e83d085f5973
Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/cron_3.0pl1-57.3_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: 6a11a3427bd263429f8189054b67add7
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/cron_3.0pl1-57.3_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: eb9993da9cc3c5d5188866ca453c0ab7
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/cron_3.0pl1-57.3_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: 17d1109ce6eeb714a09f864bb244f804
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/cron_3.0pl1-57.3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: 9486a5eaa675ada6a5bbfaca2fa2a9ef
These packages will be moved into the stable distribution on its next
revision.
For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .
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apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: [email protected]
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