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Current Newswire: Ksplice debuts zero downtime service for Linux BM Ups Its Processor Power to 7 KDE.org Relaunched for Software Compilation 4.4 The application is the new the operating system Linux can compete with the iPad on price, but where’s the magic? The Bruno Knaapen Technology Learning Center is Established Anjal: GNOME's Evolution for Netbooks Linux Mint 8 KDE Community Edition Open source means freedom from 'anti-features' GTalX - Google Voice Chat has arrived in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) UNIX Systems Administrator (IL) Next Step Systems US-IL-Chicago Post A Job | Post A Resume Debian Security Advisory: New version of nis released Oct 28, 1999, 15 :07 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (1821 reads) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:40:28 +0200 From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@liacs.nl> To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Reply to: security@debian.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Debian Security Advisory security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman October 28, 1999 The nis package that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 has a couple of problems: * ypserv allowed any machine in the NIS domain to insert new tables * rpc.yppasswd had a bufferoverflow in its MD5 code * rpc.yppasswd allowed users to change the GECOS and loginshell entries of other users This has been fixed in version 3.5-2. We recommend you upgrade your nis package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/nis_3.5-2.diff.gz MD5 checksum: 5b41361ce80bd2067c2c40f03ea14ac4 http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/nis_3.5-2.dsc MD5 checksum: 696ad9726555336e8bab482ee8f2f040 http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/nis_3.5.orig.tar.gz MD5 checksum: 368167b1e16eb25ac639935310a26daa Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/nis_3.5-2_alpha.deb MD5 checksum: c0a8066bd00ed4fe10ac4c7294768ede Intel ia32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/nis_3.5-2_i386.deb MD5 checksum: 0cc3b116a4ede4dec99189b9bdb9830a Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-m68k/nis_3.5-2_m68k.deb MD5 checksum: 5a713462f36bb6faf90d362b5e28aa61 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/nis_3.5-2_sparc.deb MD5 checksum: 9fa64238b625748523e5f5e8591434cd These files will be moved into ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/ soon. For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/. For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBOBd/VqjZR/ntlUftAQEDaQL/U4xUvtW84sRPjrXQS1kqEE0nyUBqEM8b T0lVB68/OS1hiwMXAV/oVnBvBnoGSuX0nqA54fcwEBbeagHf7q2/aY/E1C7vPdSU SrgcxGwjA66YomkzkfBNLHosSMitKE/F =cEQe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-announce-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org No talkbacks posted.   Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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