From debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Thu Oct 28 02:16:17 2004 From: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Resent-From: list@murphy.debian.org (SmartList) To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:09:04 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com Subject: [Full-Disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 574-1] New cabextract packages fix unintended directory traversal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 574-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze October 28th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : cabextract Vulnerability : missing directory sanitising Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2004-0916 Debian Bug : 277522 The upstream developers discovered a problem in cabextract, a tool to extract cabinet files. The program was able to overwrite files in upper directories. This could lead an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.2-2b. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.1-1. We recommend that you upgrade your cabextract package. Upgrade Instructions - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 568 72c81704917abe1f37ae4694392c97e3 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 2314 d31e74e1186f00a60dc944bec28829f9 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 66136 8f59514ec67cfb43658c57c67c864b74 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 20344 2eba57f87ea2348e3e0322eb5d7ce3a5 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 16514 0c1b72dfef4454c9a4140d4728b6d56d Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 15054 f0b5a915d31a51dbad5df5163c326204 Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 23934 7a180cb2c7321533839d88edfde0664e HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 17784 50e507a1108c883a550f6b14b01238be Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 15034 e576be7c48a6217bc3d04f850b622ea9 Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 17948 427396df5074b07059f35d1603512423 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 17884 de2d86ebeb9fdcaf58f99e403ca4ba86 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 16572 f087bc23f1a5ff782ad4a15563482af0 IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 16658 44e78328ade15ef1b71fe5fec2738bc7 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_0.2-2b_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 18692 ad98229293a9a753db5d371cab657d06 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBgH7wW5ql+IAeqTIRAo/oAKCp8cfa0FAGZccSf1Z/cThHrha8dACePC+c RFwKfrysKwA898z3JLSmEGw= =rbCk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html