Debian Etch: DSA 1342-1 Critical: XFS Privilege Escalation Issue
debian
July 30, 2007
It was discovered that a race condition in the init.d script of the X Font
Server allows the modification of file permissions of arbitrary files if
the local administrator can be...
Topics Covered
Summary
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.1-6.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.4-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your xfs 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 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 794 938a05eb2b1638fc49b4d7101084c69b
Size/MD5 checksum: 28440 0eeacd5783c66b937eaa1dbde6145401
Size/MD5 checksum: 174623 32e8b6b24ec3d4c0de11d81061640cc2
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 75520 0becb7909f5...
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