Debian Security Advisory
DSA-050-1 sendfile -- broken privileges dropping, broken tempfile
- Date Reported:
- 20 Apr 2001
- Affected Packages:
- sendfile
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2001-0623.
- More information:
-
Colin Phipps and Daniel Kobras discovered and fixed several serious
bugs in the saft daemon `sendfiled' which caused it to drop privileges
incorrectly. Exploiting this a local user can easily make it execute
arbitrary code under root privileges.
We recommend you upgrade your sendfile packages immediately.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/sendfile_2.1-20.2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/sendfile_2.1-20.2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/sendfile_2.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/sendfile_2.1-20.2.dsc
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/sendfile_2.1-20.2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/sendfile_2.1-20.2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/sendfile_2.1-20.2_i386.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/sendfile_2.1-20.2_m68k.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/sendfile_2.1-20.2_powerpc.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/sendfile_2.1-20.2_sparc.deb