8364530 2002-04-29 16:17 +0200 /93 rader/ Trustix Secure Linux Advisor <tsl@trustix.com> Sänt av: joel@lysator.liu.se Importerad: 2002-04-29 22:25 av Brevbäraren Extern mottagare: bugtraq@securityfocus.com Mottagare: Bugtraq (import) <22098> Ärende: TSLSA-2002-0046 - sudo ------------------------------------------------------------ From: tsl@trustix.com (Trustix Secure Linux Advisor) To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com Message-ID: <20020429141729.GA20267@trustix.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory #2002-0046 Package name: sudo Summary: Minor security issue Date: 2002-04-29 Affected versions: TSL 1.1, 1.2, 1.5 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Problem description: There was a problem in the old sudo package involving a heap overflow. In general heap overflows are difficult to exploit, but as this one potentially could lead to root-access, it should be considered a bit more critical. The issue is fixed upstream, and we now provide sudo version 1.6.6 Action: We recommend that all systems with this package installed are upgraded. Please note that if you do not need the functionality provided by this package, you may want to remove it from your system. Location: All TSL updates are available from <URI:http://www.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/updates/> <URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/updates/> Automatic updates: Users of the SWUP tool can enjoy having updates automatically installed using 'swup --upgrade'. Get SWUP from: <URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/software/swup/> Public testing: These packages have been available for public testing for some time. If you want to contribute by testing the various packages in the testing tree, please feel free to share your findings on the tsl-discuss mailinglist. The testing tree is located at <URI:http://www.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/testing/> <URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/testing/> Questions? Check out our mailing lists: <URI:http://www.trustix.net/support/> Verification: This advisory along with all TSL packages are signed with the TSL sign key. This key is available from: <URI:http://www.trustix.net/TSL-GPG-KEY> The advisory itself is available from the errata pages at <URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/trustix-1.2/> and <URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/trustix-1.5/> or directly at <URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/misc/2002/TSL-2002-0046-sudo.asc.txt> MD5sums of the packages: - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- b7e0bb1ae875848d1083f212db8aaa4c ./1.5/SRPMS/sudo-1.6.6-1tr.src.rpm 0bb2e55703b06a958ff2016c8f639636 ./1.5/RPMS/sudo-1.6.6-1tr.i586.rpm b7e0bb1ae875848d1083f212db8aaa4c ./1.2/SRPMS/sudo-1.6.6-1tr.src.rpm 222a5bf82392a838641b50820fb645db ./1.2/RPMS/sudo-1.6.6-1tr.i586.rpm b7e0bb1ae875848d1083f212db8aaa4c ./1.1/SRPMS/sudo-1.6.6-1tr.src.rpm ccfe0310894a377d49b04affa69b7cc8 ./1.1/RPMS/sudo-1.6.6-1tr.i586.rpm - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trustix Security Team -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8zTj8wRTcg4BxxS0RAuteAJ40lprTbaWbiJ6Vc74SKGjSQ8g/KwCeP3vE GXZTsPB8VGxa2ZoGdWPbvTk= =BTRX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- (8364530) /Trustix Secure Linux Advisor <tsl@trustix.com>/