Debian: New cpio packages fix denial of service
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1566-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp May 02, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : cpio Vulnerability : programming error Problem type : local (remote) Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-4476 Dmitry Levin discovered a vulnerability in path handling code used by the cpio archive utility. The weakness could enable a denial of service (crash) or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if a vulnerable version of cpio is used to extract or to list the contents of a maliciously crafted archive. For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.6-18.1+etch1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.9-5. We recommend that you upgrade your cpio 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: 556018 76b4145f33df088a5bade3bf4373d17d Size/MD5 checksum: 556 fdcfe9fa17130663f3fcb21aebb52924 Size/MD5 checksum: 92775 78d1098c15d92c0d5bfe6c5dcc4e5652 alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) Size/MD5 checksum: 146740 167eeae5237940f15b9eea7b1f754b65 amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) Size/MD5 checksum: 136734 f827f70099b66a518fbd3e6782e7909b arm architecture (ARM) Size/MD5 checksum: 132108 b4ecfb2b81f84d1f82c268c0ccb0081d hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) Size/MD5 checksum: 143166 b7ca87731e442f3eaaf117113bfc941a i386 architecture (Intel ia32) Size/MD5 checksum: 132096 c490f550663e524725544d389546e56f ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) Size/MD5 checksum: 171990 be7ca34414f4bfa4129379c9eea3473f mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 146084 f57b7e09e1705692427220cd1932ea1a mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 145348 2010baf76d3039417c6b6bca1eba1246 powerpc architecture (PowerPC) Size/MD5 checksum: 138322 229edae58b3b4387dcfdcf8717932cb4 s390 architecture (IBM S/390) Size/MD5 checksum: 143878 60c6e036d5df8c67e74f301fa14b4e9f sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC) Size/MD5 checksum: 131248 63a51ec9ac633327f21d27c616d604ba 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