[Debian] Security Advisory: New version of apcd released

Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 10:12:51 -0800
From: Aleph One
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Reply to: Aleph One

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Debian Security Advisory                             security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                      Wichert Akkerman
February  1, 2000
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Package: apcd
Vulnerability type: symlink attack
Debian-specific: no

The apcd package as shipped in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is
vulnerable to a symlink attack. If the apcd process gets a SIGUSR1
signal it will dump its status to /tmp/upsstat. However this file
is not opened safely, which makes it a good target for a symlink
attack.

This has been fixed in version 0.6a.nr-4slink1. We recommend you
upgrade your apcd package immediately.

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

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
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This version of Debian was released only for Intel ia32, the
Motorola 680×0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.

Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/apcd_0.6a.nr-4slink1.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 418d34e54e080c2129b8a686e8423d6d
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/apcd_0.6a.nr-4slink1.dsc
MD5 checksum: f9be18f528e8a067696673337e1198ca
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/apcd_0.6a.nr.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 4a714a8de33cc482b678c0d21b26d76e

Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/apcd_0.6a.nr-4slink1_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 00210d5c30732f2bbaf68291f2d7e8d8

Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/apcd_0.6a.nr-4slink1_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: cff51852635922507c37f96df99d8e76

Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-m68k/apcd_0.6a.nr-4slink1_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 827079cf5f0819653635873ded1f4a75

Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/apcd_0.6a.nr-4slink1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: d56b7b9ea14c4af81856dd3e1b480e92

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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