Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 00:38:31 +0100
From: Martin Schulze
To: Debian Security Announcements
debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA 028-1] New man-db packages released
Debian Security Advisory DSA-028-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze February 9, 2001
Package : man-db Vulnerability : format string vulnerability Type : local exploit Debian-specific: no
Styx has reported that the program `man’ mistakenly passes
malicious strings (i.e. containing format characters) through
routines that were not meant to use them as format strings. Since
this could cause a segmentation fault and privileges were not
dropped it may lead to an exploit for the ‘man’ user.
We recommend you upgrade your man-db package immediately.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and
sparc architectures.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/man-db_2.3.16-1.1.dsc
MD5 checksum: 2b9918131917984b87fcee9ddc08fb2e
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/man-db_2.3.16-1.1.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: c6c5931bd70a34d8b6df5d09736a6110
Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/man-db_2.3.16-1.1_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: ef897ea4450eb06089ae87213177d5fa
Motorola 680×0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/man-db_2.3.16-1.1_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 3f12e53dfbf896eba06296403363c977
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/man-db_2.3.16-1.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: ab357a472d57c7668992f0f5b0395d93
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/man-db_2.3.16-1.1_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: cde9367a123c74ff40970beb66d3dedb
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/man-db_2.3.16-1.1_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: 5aad8020aa268abf5c283537cb78eda2
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/man-db_2.3.16-1.1_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: c7980061b9e8a5d95191befcd93e5d0e
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 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>