Debian 3.1 DSA 1106-1 Critical: Local Threat in PPP Package
debian
July 10, 2006
Marcus Meissner discovered that the winbind plugin in pppd does not check whether a setuid() call has been successful when trying to drop privileges, which may fail with some PAM c...
Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4.4rel-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your ppp 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: 633 1b8f1f8da7cf7b56c2c6e13e2072167d
Size/MD5 checksum: 83359 1fd6996f800c3d323b159ca5ab587712
Size/MD5 checksum: 697459 0537b03fb51cbb847290abdbb765cb93
Architecture independent com...
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