Debian Security Advisory: New version of ePerl packages available

Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 17:20:04 +0100
From: Martin Schulze joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de
To: Debian Security Announcements
debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA 034-1] New version of ePerl packages
available

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-034-1                                      security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                                   Martin Schulze 
March 7, 2001

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Package        : ePerl
Vulnerability  : buffer overflow
Type           : local and remote root exploit
Debian-specific: no

Fumitoshi Ukai and Denis Barbier have found several potential
buffer overflow bugs in our version of ePerl as distributed in all
of our distributions.

When eperl is installed setuid root, it can switch to the
UID/GID of the scripts owner. Although Debian doesn’t ship the
program setuid root, this is a useful feature which people may have
activated locally. When the program is used as
/usr/lib/cgi-bin/nph-eperl the bugs could lead into a remote
vulnerability as well.

Version 2.2.14-0.7potato2 fixes this.

We recommend you upgrade your eperl 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

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

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/eperl_2.2.14-0.7potato2.diff.gz

MD5 checksum: e15ca9f85d8b5265f5b992d6a3dc4ac6

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/eperl_2.2.14-0.7potato2.dsc

MD5 checksum: 260a3dd611c5a637460adca94d3929c0

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/eperl_2.2.14.orig.tar.gz

MD5 checksum: 0213580b6711b5312d1873f9732ae8d6

Intel ia32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/eperl_2.2.14-0.7potato2_i386.deb

MD5 checksum: 9675e82dd0a6a04ce32dca5a30bed8bc

Motorola 680×0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/eperl_2.2.14-0.7potato2_m68k.deb

MD5 checksum: c6b4cf3e84020a3baf0f913edda039e3

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/eperl_2.2.14-0.7potato2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksum: 0218aff205881cf26319c5d1a4dbf1eb

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/eperl_2.2.14-0.7potato2_alpha.deb

MD5 checksum: b1fcca3e86e223622c12c9c3d904a7e0

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/eperl_2.2.14-0.7potato2_powerpc.deb

MD5 checksum: 2ac8090cbbded6cc23459d0eae7f5431

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/eperl_2.2.14-0.7potato2_arm.deb

MD5 checksum: acc616361b0974c0e7fe04605c8c16e9

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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