Debian: lv privilege escalation vulnerability
Summary
Leonard Stiles discovered that lv, a multilingual file viewer, would
read options from a configuration file in the current directory.
Because such a file could be placed there by a malicious user, and lv
configuration options can be used to execute commands, this
represented a security vulnerability. An attacker could gain the
privileges of the user invoking lv, including root.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.49.4-7woody2.
For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed
in version 4.49.3-4potato2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem is fixed in version
4.49.5-2.
We recommend that you update your lv package.
Upgrade Instructions
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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.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 575 fb13ca58c57ecaf4ba2fb65d7658fcc8
Size/MD5 checksum: 18681 32e2cd190001661fd18f0c48859764ea
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 431152 624b9c4e19de8d8f0c7308deaf5086b9
ARM architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 418696 8e4abd0925b67bba2bddb217bd16c2d1
Intel IA-32 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 414468 8ad1b5cc46b8de88d7391d0295c8b044
Intel IA-64 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 446540 a582ddf25fcf1d355d49369d291c4874
HP Precision architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 433536 6781dd5434edf8af607fa4cb9b014bf6
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 418074 a33c8f0fbc02aa8955b8506faa4bf2f5
Big endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 431186 a076010924444a944913020fbb266653
Little endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 426304 91adbaf33f69168b7e7e0ad73cc862b9
PowerPC architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 423248 ee5087e7908ac9a06758bb56fd25eee7
IBM S/390 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 424434 f180c1fddbc2ad9bc990783b0eef970b
Sun Sparc architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 425480 16ea4b35da3bfeb1b0ba3041bbf3d6d3
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 565 db42be76e5a57c8cb081db3d9c4ae147
Size/MD5 checksum: 9790 be3d6208663da6e5996fad6281252be3
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 435796 b3eb403c39a36033582bfd62f2545570
ARM architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 424328 0effe8f65e7946d43d60f4fdc93f6b6a
Intel IA-32 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 420370 45a39fdee604a636c481b7abf7a850e2
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 423884 a3d9e01643fc182f6add294a562c4a10
PowerPC architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 429046 7c792417bf68d09fd9ce437f945231d8
Sun Sparc architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 430938 f724c82306194be0a4e2f1f9bb346170
For apt-get: deb Debian -- Security Information stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show