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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/loop-aes-utils/loop-aes-utils_2.12p-4sarge1.diff.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.