Aviso de seguridad de Debian

DSA-095-1 gpm -- vulnerabilidad de root local

Fecha del informe:
27 de dic de 2001
Paquetes afectados:
gpm
Vulnerable:
Sí
Referencias a bases de datos de seguridad:
En el diccionario CVE de Mitre: CVE-2001-1203.
Información adicional:
El paquete 'gpm' cotiene el programa gpm-root, que se puede utilizar par crear menús activados por ratón en la consola. Entre otros problemas, el programa gpm-root contiene una vulnerabilidad de cadena de formato, que permite a un atacante obtener privilegios de root.

Esto ha sido arreglado en la versión 1.17.8-18.1, y recomendamos que actualice su paquete 1.17.8-18 inmediatamente.

Arreglado en:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)

Fuentes:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/gpm_1.17.8-18.1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/gpm_1.17.8-18.1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/gpm_1.17.8.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/gpm_1.17.8-18.1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/libgpmg1-dev_1.17.8-18.1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/libgpmg1_1.17.8-18.1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/gpm_1.17.8-18.1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/libgpmg1-dev_1.17.8-18.1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/libgpmg1_1.17.8-18.1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/gpm_1.17.8-18.1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/libgpm1-altdev_1.17.8-18.1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/libgpm1_1.17.8-18.1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/libgpmg1-dev_1.17.8-18.1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/libgpmg1_1.17.8-18.1_i386.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/gpm_1.17.8-18.1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/libgpm1-altdev_1.17.8-18.1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/libgpm1_1.17.8-18.1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/libgpmg1-dev_1.17.8-18.1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/libgpmg1_1.17.8-18.1_m68k.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/gpm_1.17.8-18.1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/libgpmg1-dev_1.17.8-18.1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/libgpmg1_1.17.8-18.1_powerpc.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/gpm_1.17.8-18.1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/libgpmg1-dev_1.17.8-18.1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/libgpmg1_1.17.8-18.1_sparc.deb

Las sumas MD5 de los ficheros que se listan están disponibles en el aviso original.