Debian alert: New version of jazip released

Posted by dave on Jan 23, 2001 3:30 AM EDT
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With older versions of jazip a user could gain root access for members of the floppy group to the local machine. The interface doesn't run as root anymore and this very exploit was prevented. The program now also truncates DISPLAY to 256 characters if it is bigger, which closes the buffer overflow (within xforms).

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-017-1                       security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                               Martin Schulze
January 23, 2001
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Package        : jazip
Vulnerability  : local root exploit and buffer overflow
Debian-specific: no

With older versions of jazip a user could gain root access for members
of the floppy group to the local machine.  The interface doesn't run
as root anymore and this very exploit was prevented.  The program now
also truncates DISPLAY to 256 characters if it is bigger, which closes
the buffer overflow (within xforms).

We recommend you upgrade your jazip 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.  This package was not available for arm and powerpc,
  now a fixed powerpc version is available while there is still no arm
  version.


  Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/jazip_0.33-1.dsc
      MD5 checksum: 57b8742ed708f0497382b7672cb65f60
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/jazip_0.33-1.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: 1fe4429042a36b08a18fecfe2e407ba8
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/jazip_0.33.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: f9ff51cbf2c45191a7d67d1f528021bb

  Intel ia32 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/jazip_0.33-1_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: f74f5c4038a4ca62695ba42efac2d60b

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/jazip_0.33-1_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 6fdafbe7736d2e963dc85689a79a1f53

  Sun Sparc architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/jazip_0.33-1_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: cb03d69daff07e03d909e9128b67d6e1

  Alpha architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/jazip_0.33-1_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: e6aff785f54bfc88f422c2ec499c3a9f

  PowerPC architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/jazip_0.33-1_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 1e813a9d76dba3cd1addf19e62a81f45


  These files will be moved into
  ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/ soon.

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

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>

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