Debian Security Advisory

DSA-825-1 loop-aes-utils -- privilege escalation

Date Reported:
29 Sep 2005
Affected Packages:
loop-aes-utils
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2876.
More information:

David Watson discovered a bug in mount as provided by util-linux and other packages such as loop-aes-utils that allows local users to bypass filesystem access restrictions by re-mounting it read-only.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain loop-aes-utils packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.12p-4sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.12p-9.

We recommend that you upgrade your loop-aes-utils package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/loop-aes-utils/loop-aes-utils_2.12p-4sarge1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/loop-aes-utils/loop-aes-utils_2.12p-4sarge1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/loop-aes-utils/loop-aes-utils_2.12p.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/loop-aes-utils/loop-aes-utils_2.12p-4sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/loop-aes-utils/loop-aes-utils_2.12p-4sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/loop-aes-utils/loop-aes-utils_2.12p-4sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/loop-aes-utils/loop-aes-utils_2.12p-4sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/loop-aes-utils/loop-aes-utils_2.12p-4sarge1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/loop-aes-utils/loop-aes-utils_2.12p-4sarge1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/loop-aes-utils/loop-aes-utils_2.12p-4sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/loop-aes-utils/loop-aes-utils_2.12p-4sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/loop-aes-utils/loop-aes-utils_2.12p-4sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/loop-aes-utils/loop-aes-utils_2.12p-4sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/loop-aes-utils/loop-aes-utils_2.12p-4sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/loop-aes-utils/loop-aes-utils_2.12p-4sarge1_sparc.deb

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