Debian Security Advisory: glibc local file overwrite problems

Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 18:46:59 +0100
From: Wichert Akkerman wichert@cistron.nl
To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA-039-1] glibc local file overwrite
problems

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-039-1                                      security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                                   Wichert Akkerman 
March  8, 2001

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Package        : glibc
Problem type   : local file overwrite
Debian-specific: no

The version of GNU libc that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux
2.2 suffered from 2 security problems:

* It was possible to use LD_PRELOAD to load libraries that are
listed in /etc/ld.so.cache, even for suid programs. This could be
used to create (and overwrite) files which a user should not be
allowed to.

* by using LD_PROFILE suid programs would write data to a file
to /var/tmp, which was not done safely. Again, this could be used
to create (and overwrite) files which a user should not have access
to.

Both problems have been fixed in version 2.1.3-17 and we
recommend that you upgrade your glibc packages immediately.

Please note that a side-effect of this upgrade is that ldd will
no longer work on suid programs, unless you logged in as root.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato

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Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and
sparc.

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/glibc_2.1.3-17.diff.gz

MD5 checksum: 2d09dcf45482a2c4400e033c92112110

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/glibc_2.1.3-17.dsc

MD5 checksum: 0483ad39d31a54db8781fddb79240e5d

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/glibc_2.1.3.orig.tar.gz

MD5 checksum: aea1bb5c28f793013153d1b8f91eb746

Architecture indendent archives:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-all/glibc-doc_2.1.3-17_all.deb

MD5 checksum: 06a18fbeee849642b48ff14cc0633984

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-all/i18ndata_2.1.3-17_all.deb

MD5 checksum: 272079ae1d3afe16b18cbc3d903a5685

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/libc6.1-dbg_2.1.3-17_alpha.deb

MD5 checksum: 28e3d452aee9a89a7883885b76c7dc66

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/libc6.1-dev_2.1.3-17_alpha.deb

MD5 checksum: 452a709107c611efffb6e4ff3697eb10

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/libc6.1-pic_2.1.3-17_alpha.deb

MD5 checksum: 68208d16954c2f81fe38a41fc6b83720

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/libc6.1-prof_2.1.3-17_alpha.deb

MD5 checksum: dc0ba72ff66b3e25213e6ab12c927941

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/libc6.1_2.1.3-17_alpha.deb

MD5 checksum: 3e75804a7de8a317304dc4b615e290d3

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/libnss1-compat_2.1.3-17_alpha.deb

MD5 checksum: 6f4bf6d43ef36117efe43bad15159dc4

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/locales_2.1.3-17_alpha.deb

MD5 checksum: 443417e614a33cf70d296fedb6733873

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/nscd_2.1.3-17_alpha.deb

MD5 checksum: 86edee3f212a0d4c769d37eb8e6de404

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/libc6-dbg_2.1.3-17_arm.deb

MD5 checksum: 63e3785e0c034ad086014a07a641b43d

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/libc6-dev_2.1.3-17_arm.deb

MD5 checksum: 3cf45427598f3c92c5744b647f14a315

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/libc6-pic_2.1.3-17_arm.deb

MD5 checksum: 30ae1c962cae0d1df3fcd8924a7eb6d3

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/libc6-prof_2.1.3-17_arm.deb

MD5 checksum: 5e4b00337e8cf44cd94125a30decf409

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/libc6_2.1.3-17_arm.deb

MD5 checksum: 0b4c9b9715d91fd9474a6a33775821b8

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/locales_2.1.3-17_arm.deb

MD5 checksum: fce2f8c6d697ed386557fcf92ef4ce47

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/nscd_2.1.3-17_arm.deb

MD5 checksum: 946568baddaf2ef3430bc3e27c464079

Intel ia32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/libc6-dbg_2.1.3-17_i386.deb

MD5 checksum: a11f04dc605f9e0692bad7c43f29b90a

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/libc6-dev_2.1.3-17_i386.deb

MD5 checksum: c92017b2d71066fb0ffada1090c72863

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/libc6-pic_2.1.3-17_i386.deb

MD5 checksum: c4523e2dfa76352db81bb7c3852e52eb

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/libc6-prof_2.1.3-17_i386.deb

MD5 checksum: f752ce83bdb45c106a564107727f4ac9

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/libc6_2.1.3-17_i386.deb

MD5 checksum: 2e97ae1db914e6bf1bbf9f622668802a

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/libnss1-compat_2.1.3-17_i386.deb

MD5 checksum: 80592eeaf265a2fa5e4ec17429bd7a29

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/locales_2.1.3-17_i386.deb

MD5 checksum: 95d336a17cbab782802304546b88f252

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/nscd_2.1.3-17_i386.deb

MD5 checksum: 3ac365c22541b0322f3f7acd4487362f

Motorola 680×0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/libc6-dbg_2.1.3-17_m68k.deb

MD5 checksum: 73c51ecef6cb349e1c05c94d98b7f08f

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/libc6-dev_2.1.3-17_m68k.deb

MD5 checksum: fdb40a30e553dbda2928913e97869dac

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/libc6-pic_2.1.3-17_m68k.deb

MD5 checksum: 4ac47fdd91bb3e74ffb88903f9aa2a2f

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/libc6-prof_2.1.3-17_m68k.deb

MD5 checksum: 1ac2effcfa957fba33364f15a0e6a0ad

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/libc6_2.1.3-17_m68k.deb

MD5 checksum: 9fa4049d37577c6bf84b6c3b618a3cf7

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/libnss1-compat_2.1.3-17_m68k.deb

MD5 checksum: 09e08e0912fb30238c888aa95f2ea5a2

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/locales_2.1.3-17_m68k.deb

MD5 checksum: 6d4ad26d19cf6309369c59279d243c2f

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/nscd_2.1.3-17_m68k.deb

MD5 checksum: b553448be9a6b872d2c38a606476b154

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/libc6-dbg_2.1.3-17_powerpc.deb

MD5 checksum: 7737f33dab4073f2f068675d0290f2e2

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/libc6-dev_2.1.3-17_powerpc.deb

MD5 checksum: 018fcbba3194cbf39617c17d769390ac

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/libc6-pic_2.1.3-17_powerpc.deb

MD5 checksum: 301d0bb507a617baeede970249eaad65

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/libc6-prof_2.1.3-17_powerpc.deb

MD5 checksum: 47a36a1dcdcf10b1ff5781f3a433eba7

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/libc6_2.1.3-17_powerpc.deb

MD5 checksum: 80b640aa7d99456cb0fe394a25a9e36b

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/locales_2.1.3-17_powerpc.deb

MD5 checksum: 9c44c79bf5c8767e3d144c6b9521b925

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/nscd_2.1.3-17_powerpc.deb

MD5 checksum: 359dc2ec51ec194da9ad5f7fd808ccc4

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/libc6-dbg_2.1.3-17_sparc.deb

MD5 checksum: e63563d43a5e7e016e21c44b80ae530b

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/libc6-dev_2.1.3-17_sparc.deb

MD5 checksum: 32dd22813fe5db4e77ff9d0bc8df74ca

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/libc6-pic_2.1.3-17_sparc.deb

MD5 checksum: 648c72da9cd496f265c8a8426fa47516

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/libc6-prof_2.1.3-17_sparc.deb

MD5 checksum: c664c5e1b2fd9d2a3d856130f7750c70

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/libc6_2.1.3-17_sparc.deb

MD5 checksum: 67123f10a4b04251c6922313c70102af

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/locales_2.1.3-17_sparc.deb

MD5 checksum: 895333e421ac054533b2cf3a989d2675

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/nscd_2.1.3-17_sparc.deb

MD5 checksum: 7be597a2a98e985bd2f9cca65049d16f

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/
.

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