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Conectiva Linux Security Announcement – cdrecord

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 7, 2000

[ Thanks to Sergio
Bruder
for this announcement. ]

CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT

PACKAGE: cdrecord

SUMMARY : Buffer overflow, no effect on default installation
DATE : 2000-JUN-07
AFFECTED CONECTIVA VERSIONS : 5.0

DESCRIPTION
The cdrecord program has a buffer overflow problem in the
processing of the command-line argument “dev=”. By exploring this
vulnerability, a local user could make the program execute
arbitrary commands.
Conectiva Linux doesn’t ship this binary
with the SUID or SGID bits turned on. So, the vulnerability’s
extent is greatly reduced, not having the effect of granting higher
user privileges.

SOLUTION
If the user needs to activate the SUID or SGID bits for the
cdrecord binary, then an upgrade is strongly recommended. The
updated packages are listed below.

DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINKS TO UPDATED PACKAGES:
ftp://ftp.conectiva.com.br/pub/conectiva/atualizacoes/5.0/i386/cdda2wav-1.8-2cl.i386.rpm

ftp://ftp.conectiva.com.br/pub/conectiva/atualizacoes/5.0/i386/cdrecord-1.8-2cl.i386.rpm

ftp://ftp.conectiva.com.br/pub/conectiva/atualizacoes/5.0/i386/cdrecord-devel-1.8-2cl.i386.rpm

ftp://ftp.conectiva.com.br/pub/conectiva/atualizacoes/5.0/i386/mkisofs-1.8-2cl.i386.rpm

SOURCE RPM PACKAGES ARE ALSO AVAILABLE:
ftp://ftp.conectiva.com.br/pub/conectiva/atualizacoes/5.0/SRPMS/cdda2wav-1.8-2cl.src.rpm

ftp://ftp.conectiva.com.br/pub/conectiva/atualizacoes/5.0/SRPMS/cdrecord-1.8-2cl.src.rpm

ftp://ftp.conectiva.com.br/pub/conectiva/atualizacoes/5.0/SRPMS/cdrecord-devel-1.8-2cl.src.rpm

ftp://ftp.conectiva.com.br/pub/conectiva/atualizacoes/5.0/SRPMS/mkisofs-1.8-2cl.src.rpm

All packages are signed with Conectiva’s PGP key. The key can be
obtained at http://www.conectiva.com.br/conectiva/contato.html

Information on how to install and/or upgrade RPM packages, and
location of mirror sites, can be found at http://www.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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