Zone-H.org - DSA-1527-1 debian-goodies -- insufficient input sanitising

DSA-1527-1 debian-goodies -- insufficient input sanitising

Written by Marcelo Almeida (Vympel)

Tuesday, 25 March 2008

Date Reported: 24 Mar 2008

Affected Packages:debian-goodies
Vulnerable:Yes
Security database references: In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 440411. In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-3912.
More information: Thomas de Grenier de Latour discovered that the checkrestart tool in the debian-goodies suite of utilities, allowed local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in the name of the executable file for a running process. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.27+etch1. For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 0.24+sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.34. We recommend that you upgrade your debian-goodies package....

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodies_0.23+sarge1.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodies_0.23+sarge1.dsc
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodies_0.23+sarge1_all.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodies_0.27+etch1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodies_0.27+etch1.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodies_0.27+etch1_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.

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