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Debian 2.2 Advisory: Critical Libpam-Smb Remote Exploit

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Calendar Grey September 12, 2000
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An urgent stack overflow flaw in libpam-smb permits local adversaries to run code with heightened permissions, jeopardizing system integrity and administration.
libpam-smb contains a buffer overflow that can be used to execute arbitrary commands with root privilege.

Summary


A fixed version of libpam-smb is available in version 1.1.6-1 for Debian
2.2 (potato). We recommend upgrading your libpam-smb immediately.

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
architectures. At this moment packages for m68k are not yet
available. As soon as they are ready we will put them online and
list them on the security pages at Debian -- Security Information

Source archives:


MD5 checksum: 6105db037fe3503c04cba3e08150c448


MD5 checksum: c83845843024a062c692c2c0d5887485


MD5 checksum: 7d18363b7ab932f852f670b4aeed1283

Alpha architecture:


MD5 checksum: bc93244ff451f7c14e194d538eacef04

ARM architecture:


MD5 checksum: f2ae975ab2916376466d7a23bbc4dc66

Intel ia32 archi...

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