Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:49:54 +0100
From: Martin Schulze joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de
To: Debian Security Announcements
debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA 024-1] New version of cron released
Debian Security Advisory DSA-024-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
January 27, 2001
Package : cron
Vulnerability : local insecure crontab handling
Debian-specific: no
The FreeBSD team has found a bug in the way new crontabs were
handled which allowed malicious users to display arbitrary crontab
files on the local system. This only affects valid crontab files so
can’t be used to get access to /etc/shadow or something. crontab
files are not especially secure anyway, as there are other ways
they can leak. No passwords or similar sensitive data should be in
there.
We recommend you upgrade your cron packages.
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/cron_3.0pl1.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 4c64aece846f8483daf440f8e3dd210f
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/cron_3.0pl1-57.2.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: c67b27e4ebf1c87abd244dea3a8765d4
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/cron_3.0pl1-57.2.dsc
MD5 checksum: 5a3fcbbc881d50894ecbc8222bf22238
Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/cron_3.0pl1-57.2_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: 4abf3f6a66449b22cd66dd89390f3b92
Motorola 680×0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/cron_3.0pl1-57.2_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 75836da00014f8a7cd19a9bf15a35324
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/cron_3.0pl1-57.2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: 0f36ced2b9034efc4a4a4c27e24741b2
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/cron_3.0pl1-57.2_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 4ab47059690eaaefdcd7fd76dfcea7dc
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/cron_3.0pl1-57.2_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: 9e719f0e0184b6a74aaf9ee46512e582
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/cron_3.0pl1-57.2_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: fbadf2d251f3ca9c93ba3976368bdf46
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/
.
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>