Debian Security Advisory

DSA-665-1 ncpfs -- missing privilege release

Date Reported:
04 Feb 2005
Affected Packages:
ncpfs
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0013.
More information:

Erik Sjölund discovered several bugs in ncpfs that provides utilities to use resources from NetWare servers of which one also applies to the stable Debian distribution. Due to accessing a configuration file without further checks with root permissions it is possible to read arbitrary files.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.0.18-10woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your ncpfs package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ncpfs_2.2.0.18-10woody2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ncpfs_2.2.0.18-10woody2.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ncpfs_2.2.0.18.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ipx_2.2.0.18-10woody2_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ncpfs_2.2.0.18-10woody2_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ipx_2.2.0.18-10woody2_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ncpfs_2.2.0.18-10woody2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ipx_2.2.0.18-10woody2_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ncpfs_2.2.0.18-10woody2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ipx_2.2.0.18-10woody2_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ncpfs_2.2.0.18-10woody2_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ipx_2.2.0.18-10woody2_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ncpfs_2.2.0.18-10woody2_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ipx_2.2.0.18-10woody2_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ncpfs_2.2.0.18-10woody2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ipx_2.2.0.18-10woody2_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ncpfs_2.2.0.18-10woody2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ipx_2.2.0.18-10woody2_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ncpfs_2.2.0.18-10woody2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ipx_2.2.0.18-10woody2_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ncpfs_2.2.0.18-10woody2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ipx_2.2.0.18-10woody2_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ncpfs_2.2.0.18-10woody2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ipx_2.2.0.18-10woody2_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ncpfs/ncpfs_2.2.0.18-10woody2_sparc.deb

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