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Debian Security Advisory: Package: ntop

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 8, 2000

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Debian Security Advisory                                 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                   Martin Schulze 
August 7, 2000

Package: ntop
Vulnerability: remote file exploit
Debian-specific: no
Vulnerable: yes

Using ntop to distribute network traffic through the network, i.e.
running ntop as webserver, it is possible to access arbitrary files
on the local filesystem. Since ntop runs as root uid, guess what
that means, even /etc/shadow got unsecured.

Since ntop comes with its own simple web server this problem is
not a result of another webserver insecurity.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink


The “ntop” package is not a part of Debian 2.1. No fix is
necessary.

Debian 2.2 alias potato


This version of Debian is not yet released. Fixes are currently
available for Alpha, ARM, Intel ia32, Motorola 680×0, PowerPC and
the Sun Sparc architecture.

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/source/ntop_1.2a7-10.diff.gz

MD5 checksum: 8d39ab8c1d330ade898bf0ebf78b829f

http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/source/ntop_1.2a7-10.dsc

MD5 checksum: 5259e2f5b4a191836dca47c3d354f4f0

http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/source/ntop_1.2a7.orig.tar.gz

MD5 checksum: 9031a2001935b7a4882f8427f0edea15

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-alpha/ntop_1.2a7-10_alpha.deb

MD5 checksum: 517dbc9a62c246931dcd48e213bfbe3f

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-arm/ntop_1.2a7-10_arm.deb

MD5 checksum: bf0e6a3d630bb71b24f26457be93d362

Intel ia32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-i386/ntop_1.2a7-10_i386.deb

MD5 checksum: 1da340aa9ef9131e17edb3f656c167e0

Motorola 680×0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-m68k/ntop_1.2a7-10_m68k.deb

MD5 checksum: fcb78534a1dbaf29994e4a9e49909d96

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-powerpc/ntop_1.2a7-10_powerpc.deb

MD5 checksum: b2322adefed307c07b243aeab0d3a41a

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-sparc/ntop_1.2a7-10_sparc.deb

MD5 checksum: 0b5b46223a907dfd931d59d8025e73e9

Debian Unstable alias woody


This version of Debian is not yet released and reflects the
current development release. Fixes are the same as for potato.


For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/
stable updates
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security
dists/stable/updates
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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