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Debian Security Advisory: Package: mtr

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March 9, 2000

Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 07:00:36 +0100
From: Wichert Akkerman wichert@soil.nl
To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: [SECURITY] New version of mtr released

Debian Security Advisory security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/
Wichert Akkerman
March 9, 2000

Package: mtr
Vulnerability type: possible local exploit
Debian-specific: no

The version of mtr as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2l1 (aka
slink) did not drop root privileges correctly. While there are no
known exploits it is conceivable that a weakness in gtk or ncurses
could be used to exploit this.

This has been fixed in version 0.28-1, and we recommend that you
upgrade your mtr 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

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/mtr_0.28-1.diff.gz

MD5 checksum: a4fd6dbcc3b50914299b5de93d4b4ce8

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/mtr_0.28-1.dsc

MD5 checksum: 4570f1d02c68225e5819c0d41a9efb45

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/mtr_0.28.orig.tar.gz

MD5 checksum: 40074f51f01fbd295f330401175f9223

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/mtr_0.28-1_alpha.deb

MD5 checksum: 2aafabb8fe0e618030cdd5a5cab20769

Intel ia32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/mtr_0.28-1_i386.deb

MD5 checksum: b1f0fdfa4d213531bd613b69ebe62b14