Debian: New OpenVPN packages fix arbitrary code execution
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 1045-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 27th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : openvpn Vulnerability : design error Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-1629 BugTraq ID : 17392 Debian Bug : 360559 Hendrik Weimer discovered that OpenVPN, the Virtual Private Network daemon, allows to push environment variables to a client allowing a malicious VPN server to take over connected clients. the old stable distribution (woody) does not contain openvpn packages. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0-1sarge3. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.6-1. We recommend that you upgrade your openvpn 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 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 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 631 4b7b2a37e742638edc00b452b3e7dc29 Size/MD5 checksum: 53070 f8a032cd64a2d37f877e1b793997c606 Size/MD5 checksum: 639201 7401faebc6baee9add32608709c54eec Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 347494 059b75282cf82fd3054c434787b8df81 AMD64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 316628 a2d46180b7f72438314ad38326a84af2 ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 296770 f246ffba0c98997a90a54b20c504f8b9 Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 302698 8b40b4ffdce700b3733b87027c9d8ca0 Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 395804 e7753416c88c3b8345e69ed857da7617 HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 316926 ce6991ede97b0d644eb159d29f0a9a2b Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 276714 6e2321f9bc66e808ce3463d9757ef2a5 Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 317870 3a05521f53d444a5fc1427f5e49909cb Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 319716 829deeeaa2ffb3af25b4a4f2a40c835b PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 309084 93acf83128599cf529b3477ff0aa7b68 IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 307544 e53abb03c1d50b9835653d0afb020fcc Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 295114 63a22f249484eb71df4e205e211d2054 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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