Debian 4.0: DSA-1420-1 Critical: Zabbix Privilege Escalation Risk
debian
December 5, 2007
Bas van Schaik discovered that the agentd process of Zabbix, a network
monitor system, may run user-supplied commands as group id root, not
zabbix, which may lead to a privilege ...
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Summary
zabbix is not included in the oldstable distribution (sarge).
We recommend that you upgrade your zabbix packages.
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
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 850 4b021367fae2f83903168622449ac3d5
Size/MD5 checksum: 19016 853af44b6fa0f9519710af72d728283b
Size/MD5 checksum: 1511210 8e733e41506dd34759daba01deeeefd9
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 337552 2094fd712f01e85f293ffba7628271a3
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 199540 ...
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