Debian alert: joe local attack via joerc
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-041-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman March 9, 2001 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : joe Problem type : local exploit Debian-specific: no Christer Öberg of Wkit Security AB found a problem in joe (Joe's Own Editor). joe will look for a configuration file in three locations: the current directory, the users homedirectory ($HOME) and in /etc/joe. Since the configuration file can define commands joe will run (for example to check spelling) reading it from the current directory can be dangerous: an attacker can leave a .joerc file in a writable directory, which would be read when a unsuspecting user starts joe in that directory. This has been fixed in version 2.8-15.3 and we recommend that you upgrade your joe package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato - --------------------------------- Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/joe_2.8-15.3.diff.gz MD5 checksum: cd6b006c8a2426ada62a6af1ddd001fe http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/joe_2.8-15.3.dsc MD5 checksum: 4f3b3a027cd8baf4c3b1a282b31cb5ed http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz MD5 checksum: 84c1aebfce7876b8639945da3c29f204 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/joe_2.8-15.3_alpha.deb MD5 checksum: bb4f2753fa7b05f5877b7bad353ac7a4 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/joe_2.8-15.3_arm.deb MD5 checksum: 179c212d01bfaa898259028ce06a24a8 Intel ia32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/joe_2.8-15.3_i386.deb MD5 checksum: 39f680f8fde72d0958431f617e774123 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/joe_2.8-15.3_m68k.deb MD5 checksum: 100db16eb2ff8aa43840cdde49d9b5a9 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/joe_2.8-15.3_powerpc.deb MD5 checksum: 425019054e7eb9b104e96ff351132bf3 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/joe_2.8-15.3_sparc.deb MD5 checksum: 8f88ab48a61c0c9f5e955fdf0fc79d4e 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/ . - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBOqg7eKjZR/ntlUftAQFACAL/WO9v+rbCALfhgspqF5BayPMDxqXvv5uT HJVs4tRi7980bUCF5lDkkDJBIcuIe9rUSVszsm8IKBKKOVqpjz2JLrfWWLDf6sul zNnEJNzuTFhA0mgZ11ufPGwELQ5NQ/4A =nhXX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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