| Debian Security Advisory DSA 274-1 | security@debian.org |
| http://www.debian.org/security/ | Martin Schulze |
| August 29th, 2003 | http://www.debian.org/security/faq |
| Package | : | node |
| Vulnerability | : | buffer overflow, format string |
| Problem-Type | : | remote |
| Debian-specific | : | no |
Morgan alias SM6TKY discovered and fixed several security
related problems in LinuxNode, an Amateur Packet Radio Node
program. The buffer overflow he discovered can be used to gain
unauthorised root access and can be remotely triggered.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed
in version 0.3.0a-2woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed
in version 0.3.2-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your node packages
immediately.
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/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 588 1efa176d975c1e05370f8ba964516797
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 6480 188fb0de8bf4e0befe24381e0dae20de
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 53547 8aff48a8744aa6ee6eaf1daa7c3b92f8
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 64240 520c82abc8809f56870724351ed6de39
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 47708 7f7955e0159549de75ec925f2237b7c9
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 47484 dbf928e7f52f5194fea6a03d2d3fdf01
Intel IA-64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 67634 71cc9de2aa3c9ad0145ff0aa3e0a29b3
HP Precision architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 52174 57c6db7ca08a02988fc0fb2b8bbe23eb
Motorola 680×0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 45790 7089cd0cb435322faed03e167a6e7dc7
Big endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 52166 c6918f854b286a0b1fe46c1a4a2e0853
Little endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 52240 3e214a4217e6fee4c7aa32f84770c02a
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 49514 a599cf448a4c2bc3618aa0a404742c3f
IBM S/390 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 48998 7cc2ae72a9c975d78be45cd82f115116
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 49524 e086b527ec73a28d9ac2109249c71691
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution
on its next revision.
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 <pkg>’ and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>