Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1109-1 rssh -- programming error

Date Reported:
16 Jul 2006
Affected Packages:
rssh
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 346322.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-1320.
More information:

Russ Allbery discovered that rssh, a restricted shell, performs insufficient checking of incoming commands, which might lead to a bypass of access restrictions.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.3-1.sarge.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.0-1.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your rssh package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rssh/rssh_2.2.3-1.sarge.2_sparc.deb

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