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The version of GNU libc that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 suffered from 2 security problems:

Former versions of sgml-tools created temporary files directly in /tmp in an insecure fashion. Version 1.0.9-15 and higher create a subdirectory first and open temporary files within that directory.

It has been reported that the AsciiSrc and MultiSrc widget in the Athena widget library handle temporary files insecurely. Joey Hess has ported the bugfix from XFree86 to these Xaw replacements libraries.

It has been reported that a local user could tweak Midnight Commander of another user into executing a random program under the user id of the person running Midnight Commander. This behaviour has been fixed by Andrew V. Samoilov.

It has been reported that one can tweak man2html remotely into consuming all available memory. This has been fixed by Nicolás Lichtmaier with help of Stephan Kulow.

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

The author of analog, Stephen Turner, has found a buffer overflow bug in all versions of analog except of version 4.16. A malicious user could use an ALIAS command to construct very long strings which were not checked for length and boundaries. This bug is particularly dangerous if the form interface (which allows unknown users to run the program via a CGI script) has been installed. There doesn't seem to be a known exploit.

The following problems have been reported for the version of proftpd in Debian 2.2 (potato):

Todd Miller announced a new version of sudo which corrects a buffer overflow that could potentially be used to gain root privilages on the local system. This bugfix has been backported to the version which was used in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2.

In Debian Security Advisory DSA 029-1 we have reported several vulnerabilities in proftpd that have been fixed. For details please read the main advisory. This upload fixes:

In Debian Security Advisory DSA 011-1 we have reported insecure creation of temporary files in the mgetty package that have been fixed. For details please read the main advisory.

CUPS is an implementation of the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) and is used as an alternative to the lpr and LPRng packages. The CUPS package aims to be a comprehensive printing solution for UN*X-systems. In SuSE-7.1 distribution, the cups package is not used by any configuration utilities unless the admin has decided to configure the package manually. The cups package has been introduced in the SuSE-7.1 distribution; enhanced support for future releases of the SuSE Linux distribution is planned. A SuSE-internal security audit conducted by Sebastian Krahmer and Thomas Biege revealed several overflows as well as insecure file handling. These bugs have been fixed by adding length-checks and securing the file-access. For a temporary workaround, remove the suid-bit from the 'lppasswd' program. Make sure nobody from outside your network can access the CUPS-server running on port 631. Allowing access to this port from outside is a bad idea regardless whether or not the used version is vulnerable.

Updated joe packages are available for Red Hat Linux 5.2, 6.x and 7.

Todd Miller announced a new version of sudo which corrects a buffer overflow that could potentially be used to gain root privilages on the local system. The fix from sudo 1.6.3p6 is available in sudo 1.6.2p2-1potato1 for Debian 2.2 (potato).

New Zope packages are available which fix numerous security vulnerabilities.

Sudo 1.6.3p6 is now available for Slackware 7.1 and Slackware -current. This release fixes a known buffer overflow, which could be used by malicious users to compromise parts of the system. If you rely on Sudo and use one of the above versions of Slackware, it is recommended that you upgrade to the new sudo.tgz package for the version you're running.

Updated analog packages are available which fix a buffer overflow vulnerability.

New vixie-cron packages are available that fix a buffer overflow in the 'crontab' command; this could allow certain users to gain elevated privileges. It is recommended that all users update to the fixed packages. Users of Red Hat Linux 6.0 or 6.1 should use the packages for Red Hat Linux 6.

SuSE distributions contain the ssh package in the version 1.2.27. No later version is provided because of licensing issues. SuSE maintains the 1.2.27 version in a patched package. Three new patches have been added that workaround three independent security problems in the ssh package: a) SSHD-1 Logging Vulnerability (discovered and published by Jose Nazario, Crimelabs). Attackers can remotely brute-force passwords without getting noticed or logged. In the ssh package from the SuSE distribution, root login is allowed, as well as password authentication. Even though brute-forcing a password may take an enormous amount of time and resources, the issue is to be taken seriously. b) SSH1 session key recovery vulnerability (by (Ariel Waissbein, Agustin Azubel) - CORE SDI, Argentina, and David Bleichenbacher). Captured encrypted ssh traffic can be decrypted with some effort by obtaining the session key for the ssh session. The added patch in our package causes the ssh daemon to generate a new server key pair upon failure of an RSA operation (please note that the patch supplied with Iván Arce on bugtraq on Wed, 7 Feb 2001 has been corrected later on!). c) In 1998, the ssh-1 protocol was found to be vulnerable to an attack where arbitrary sequences could be inserted into the ssh-1 protocol layer. The attack was called "crc32 compensation attack", and a fix was introduced (crc compensation attack detector in the ssh -v output) into the later versions of ssh. Michal Zalewski discovered that the fix in its most widely used implementation is defective. An integer overflow allows an attacker to overwrite arbitrary memory in the sshd process' address space, which potentionally results in a remote root compromise. There are easy resorts that can be offered: a) switch to openssh (please use the openssh packages on http://ftp.suse.com from the same update directories as the ssh package update URLs below indicate). openssh is a different implementation of the ssh protocol that is compatible to the protocol versions 1 and 2. Openssh Version 2.3.0 does not suffer from the problems listed above. Versions before 2.3.0 are vulnerable to other problems, so please use the updates from the update directory on the http://ftp.suse.de ftp server. See section 2) of this announcement for the md5sums of the packages. b) upgrade your ssh package from the locations described below.

SuSE distributions contain the ssh package in the version 1.2.27. No later version is provided because of licensing issues. SuSE maintains the 1.2.27 version in a patched package. Three new patches have been added that workaround three independent security problems in the ssh package: a) SSHD-1 Logging Vulnerability (discovered and published by Jose Nazario, Crimelabs). Attackers can remotely brute-force passwords without getting noticed or logged. In the ssh package from the SuSE distribution, root login is allowed, as well as password authentication. Even though brute-forcing a password may take an enormous amount of time and resources, the issue is to be taken seriously. b) SSH1 session key recovery vulnerability (by (Ariel Waissbein, Agustin Azubel) - CORE SDI, Argentina, and David Bleichenbacher). Captured encrypted ssh traffic can be decrypted with some effort by obtaining the session key for the ssh session. The added patch in our package causes the ssh daemon to generate a new server key pair upon failure of an RSA operation (please note that the patch supplied with Iván Arce on bugtraq on Wed, 7 Feb 2001 has been corrected later on!). c) In 1998, the ssh-1 protocol was found to be vulnerable to an attack where arbitrary sequences could be inserted into the ssh-1 protocol layer. The attack was called "crc32 compensation attack", and a fix was introduced (crc compensation attack detector in the ssh -v output) into the later versions of ssh. Michal Zalewski discovered that the fix in its most widely used implementation is defective. An integer overflow allows an attacker to overwrite arbitrary memory in the sshd process' address space, which potentionally results in a remote root compromise. There are easy resorts that can be offered: a) switch to openssh (please use the openssh packages on http://ftp.suse.com from the same update directories as the ssh package update URLs below indicate). openssh is a different implementation of the ssh protocol that is compatible to the protocol versions 1 and 2. Openssh Version 2.3.0 does not suffer from the problems listed above. Versions before 2.3.0 are vulnerable to other problems, so please use the updates from the update directory on the http://ftp.suse.de ftp server. See section 2) of this announcement for the md5sums of the packages. b) upgrade your ssh package from the locations described below.