From joey@infodrom.org Wed Aug 3 01:11:17 2005 From: Martin Schulze Resent-From: list@murphy.debian.org (Mailing List Manager) To: Debian Security Announcements Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 07:02:44 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk Subject: [Full-disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 772-1] New apt-cacher package fixes arbitrary command execution -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 772-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze August 3rd, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : apt-cacher Vulnerability : missing input sanitising Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: yes CVE ID : CAN-2005-1854 Eduard Bloch discovered a bug in apt-cacher, a caching system for Debian package and source files, that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the caching host as user www-data. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain this package. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.4sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.10. We recommend that you upgrade your apt-cacher 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 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apt-cacher/apt-cacher_0.9.4sarge1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 609 36c17e1638ff520f7abdff90748286b6 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apt-cacher/apt-cacher_0.9.4sarge1.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 50441 cc318d7cf0ced3f497db7b64a80e9544 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/apt-cacher/apt-cacher_0.9.4sarge1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 39092 33c67a2990c5e9c8c52bd20b8ce72816 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 v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC8E/zW5ql+IAeqTIRAsm3AJ9LGThs6MvesLEfipksm4qah1jd6QCglEvP n0TKzqaA8Nu9oE6eYbAnXn8= =+QHL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/