Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:07:02 +0100
From: Martin Schulze joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de
To: Debian Security Announcements
debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: [SECURITY] New version of modutils released
Debian Security Advisory security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
November 22, 2000
Package : modutils
Problem type : local buffer overflow
Debian-specific: no
Sebastian Krahmer raised an issue in modutils. In an ideal world
modprobe should trust the kernel to only pass valid parameters to
modprobe. However he has found at least one local root exploit
because high level kernel code passed unverified parameters direct
from the user to modprobe. So modprobe no longer trusts kernel
input and switches to a safemode.
This problem has been fixed in version 2.3.11-13.1 and we
recommend that you upgrade your modutils packages immediately.
This problem does not exist in the big elvis package.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
Slink is no longer being supported by the Debian Security Team.
We highly recommend an upgrade to the current stable release.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
Potato was released for the Alpha, ARM, Intel ia32, Motorola
680×0, PowerPC and Sun Sparc architectures. Fixes are available for
all of them and will be included in 2.2r2.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/source/modutils_2.3.11-13.1.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: fd65f6fb5554031fe9ffa4d0e000e8b2
http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/source/modutils_2.3.11-13.1.dsc
MD5 checksum: 2aa5e5932211f4d799ae302013410e5e
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-alpha/modutils_2.3.11-13.1_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 6e4d54d87129ff14cbb667c69454bf0f
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-arm/modutils_2.3.11-13.1_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: 12d4bd14fbc6f5bea5e399e886fef1bd
Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-i386/modutils_2.3.11-13.1_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: 14c86f702cfed261eb65fdcecaab9c4e
Motorola 680×0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-m68k/modutils_2.3.11-13.1_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 41579a25f953981cc3148aee14699145
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-powerpc/modutils_2.3.11-13.1_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: b551d48435268e338e673f21f08d997d
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-sparc/modutils_2.3.11-13.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: a96dee6c2525ac409bd3c58c711133fe
These files will be moved into
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/
soon.
Debian GNU/Linux Unstable alias woody
This version of Debian is not yet released.
Fixes will be made available for Alpha, ARM, Intel ia32,
Motorola 680×0, PowerPC, and Sun Sparc in the Debian archive over
the next several days.
For not yet released architectures please refer to the
appropriate directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/
.
apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/
stable/updates main
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>