Debian alert: New version of tcsh released

Posted by dave on Nov 10, 2000 6:11 PM EDT
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Proton reported on bugtraq that tcsh did not handle in-here documents correctly. The version of tcsh that is distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r0 also suffered from this problem.

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Debian Security Advisory                             security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
November 11, 2000
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Package: tcsh
Vulnerability: local exploit
Debian-specific: no

Proton reported on bugtraq that tcsh did not handle in-here documents
correctly. The version of tcsh that is distributed with Debian GNU/Linux
2.2r0 also suffered from this problem.

When using in-here documents using the << syntax tcsh uses a temporary
file to store the data. Unfortunately the temporary file is not created
securely and standard symlink attacks can be used to make tcsh overwrite
arbitrary files.

This has been fixed in version 6.09.00-10 and we recommend that you
upgrade your tcsh package immediately.


wget url
	will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.



Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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  Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc
  architectures. 


  Source archives:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/tcsh_6.09.00-10.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: 764fd56d0c32044655f47ce35b0acef1
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/tcsh_6.09.00-10.dsc
      MD5 checksum: 662ea288452dc11de207d0051d4f82d7
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/tcsh_6.09.00.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: 33511c75037cd4948ed6f1627d1793aa

  Architecture indendent archives:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-all/tcsh-i18n_6.09.00-10_all.deb
      MD5 checksum: 67a2a8d37c467ee356bb5d5cfe1a6957

  Alpha architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/tcsh-kanji_6.09.00-10_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: d94b88f967a30b29d0fd428651c24ee7
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/tcsh_6.09.00-10_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 35493353e4b7a0c73dc481fb114f992e

  ARM architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/tcsh-kanji_6.09.00-10_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: 41e52451e23c910040d13252a95ccd02
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/tcsh_6.09.00-10_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: 37c93cc0c71267e1a8e9a2a0478de274

  Intel ia32 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/tcsh-kanji_6.09.00-10_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: 08638761e6526431cdac955e1c4e18bc
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/tcsh_6.09.00-10_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: 0893dabcc592c8d32dadc09e479e998f

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/tcsh-kanji_6.09.00-10_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 5cdff861f9ffec03013a3b84e6045ed8
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/tcsh_6.09.00-10_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: c7d7e41f56fc7478abb27cbf81d5aec6

  PowerPC architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/tcsh-kanji_6.09.00-10_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: fa31d16133308159b72ae9eda0bb52a7
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/tcsh_6.09.00-10_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: a158e78ee02c263b729f23b642f6835e

  Sun Sparc architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/tcsh-kanji_6.09.00-10_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: b75a93eb0fee0289bda3ffbc13fdd797
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/tcsh_6.09.00-10_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 556d8e1fc4d7aa25b436c65c70c9c314


For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .

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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

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