Debian Security Advisory
DSA-052-1 sendfile -- broken dropping of privileges
- Date Reported:
- 23 Apr 2001
- Affected Packages:
- sendfile
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2001-0623.
- More information:
-
Daniel Kobras has discovered and fixed a problem in sendfiled which
caused the daemon not to drop privileges as expected when sending
notification mails. Exploiting this, a local user can easily make it
execute arbitrary code under root privileges.
We recommend that you upgrade your sendfile package immediately.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/sendfile_2.1-20.3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/sendfile_2.1-20.3.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_2.1-20.3.dsc
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/sendfile_2.1-20.3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/sendfile_2.1-20.3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/sendfile_2.1-20.3_i386.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/sendfile_2.1-20.3_m68k.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/sendfile_2.1-20.3_powerpc.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/sendfile_2.1-20.3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.