Debian alert: New versions of Debian traceroute packages

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Debian Security Advisory                                 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                            Daniel Jacobowitz
October 13, 2000
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Package: traceroute
Vulnerability: local root exploit
Debian-specific: no
Vulnerable: yes

In versions of the traceroute package before 1.4a5-3, it is possible for a
local user to gain root access by exploiting an argument parsing error.

This problem is fixed in version 1.4a5-3, uploaded to Debian's unstable
distribution on August 24, 2000.  Fixed packages are now also available in
proposed-updates and will be included in the next revision of Debian/2.2
(potato).

The traceroute-nanog package is unaffected by this problem.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
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  Slink contains an earlier version of traceroute, which is not affected by
  this problem.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (stable) alias potato
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  Fixes are currently available for the Alpha, ARM, Intel ia32, Motorola 680x0,
  PowerPC and Sun SPARC architectures, and will be included in 2.2r1.

  Source archives:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/source/traceroute_1.4a5-3.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: fa0c426fa84bf54ec33093bae90c1fdf
    http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/source/traceroute_1.4a5-3.dsc
      MD5 checksum: 4bd7bc9ec1894c75e7ccba51e6a91cc6
    http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/source/traceroute_1.4a5.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: db5724df8d01b6c75aefe704e06e8160

  Alpha architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-alpha/traceroute_1.4a5-3_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 6b3f20ecb08276c15715ae54ef8be0c7

  ARM architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-arm/traceroute_1.4a5-3_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: 3e92eb865b388769da00a5cb3297a862

  Intel ia32 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-i386/traceroute_1.4a5-3_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: feba02e20848bdfafa6bf7dd9c594eba

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-m68k/traceroute_1.4a5-3_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: fdc5a6ed3cd97067c4b7e1ddf7945287

  PowerPC architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-powerpc/traceroute_1.4a5-3_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 3cb1524fccc1eb0e011ec17d2d2a1407

  Sun Sparc architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-sparc/traceroute_1.4a5-3_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: a9f078c807e52ab1a68bdeba0d364be1

Debian GNU/Linux Unstable alias woody
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  This version of Debian is not yet released.

  Fixes are currently available for Alpha, Intel ia32, Motorola 680x0,
  PowerPC and the Sun SPARC architectures, in the Debian archives.  The
  stable packages listed above are also installable on current unstable
  systems.

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

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