Debian: New shadow packages fix privilege escalation
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0.17-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your passwd 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 at the end of this advisory:
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
Size/MD5 checksum: 839 41bfb3755b2ce8757503ddacdc16ce2e
Size/MD5 checksum: 1319891 37ff81fdb6257fd5fbf0dac750994a17
Size/MD5 checksum: 1045704 b52dfb2e5e8d9a4a2aae0ca1b266c513
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 592990 fc32b98aaa86270b24ffcbcc628c6b53
Size/MD5 checksum: 693290 df12c75d0cb8a4ed74cf3d9b9a42b544
AMD64 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 583790 a6fa0e91cff19cce477ffa2ef9c15a51
Size/MD5 checksum: 598818 bd00af826eb416d84a806d3b85aae20a
ARM architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 573182 ff4ee5cfa0a41db6b0d3828b85791eb1
Size/MD5 checksum: 524146 b3163af303b9325b8b3fbd17847d5510
Intel IA-32 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 575962 da7d31edbc2ae8efa062efceb7412403
Size/MD5 checksum: 528482 674bc0f5a55b5a9c089776946881912e
Intel IA-64 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 602812 6d5bf5529766f141197e06526ad89e03
Size/MD5 checksum: 757510 ee72e952ae6a72ad1bb43926736fc524
HP Precision architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 583126 6a6fe662ce9b70b105445287f7de8350
Size/MD5 checksum: 573358 52982450016009a1d105026df2ed9476
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 571880 95318dd38be1768f37870ef76772d468
Size/MD5 checksum: 512466 84bb5dfc7a00b48331d16135659ce4b1
Big endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 588494 9fe712af58492605236207221ca86cbf
Size/MD5 checksum: 656588 bcc61369a7b7d26c0f2deae3fcea169b
Little endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 587674 9d4ab58720cbeff9e77ca5e543092cfd
Size/MD5 checksum: 654250 1ddb102ea0773af194c5ac4198d91b14
PowerPC architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 583558 43a88fc71b1d49d0fa369008f683bf6a
Size/MD5 checksum: 565848 cb039cc1d7d3b3b2197336b246a005a4
IBM S/390 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 583082 d2bc93a93d9c8d558e9928267ebcbf36
Size/MD5 checksum: 578882 983719b3c73ce360585e49a38ba2f2e1
Sun Sparc architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 575736 1d138fefdee9b5714f002ec0dd56b7f7
Size/MD5 checksum: 532128 96efe104eae8a228474a5d456c3b2907
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org