Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1527-1 debian-goodies -- insufficient input sanitising
- Date Reported:
- 24 Mar 2008
- Affected Packages:
- debian-goodies
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 440411.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-3912. - More information:
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Thomas de Grenier de Latour discovered that the checkrestart tool in the debian-goodies suite of utilities, allowed local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in the name of the executable file for a running process.
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 0.24+sarge1.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.27+etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.34.
We recommend that you upgrade your debian-goodies package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodies_0.23+sarge1.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodies_0.23+sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodies_0.23+sarge1.dsc
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodies_0.23+sarge1_all.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodies_0.27+etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodies_0.27+etch1.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodies_0.27+etch1.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodies_0.27+etch1_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.