[LI] Debian: New version of amd fixes remote exploit, take 2

[Aleph One <aleph1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI: Vulnerability in Debian ``amd'' package -- Raju

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 02:51:48 +0200
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@xxxxxxxx>
Message-Id: <199910180051.CAA16811@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: debian-security-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [SECURITY] New version of amd fixes remote exploit, take 2

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Debian Security Advisory                             security@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
October 18, 1999
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The version of amd that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is
vulnerable to a remote exploit. This was fixed in version 23.0slink1.
However that fix contained an error which has been fixed in version
upl102-23.slink2.

Here is the problem description from the previous fix:
  Passing a big directory name to amd its logging code would overflow a
  buffer which could be exploited. This has been fixed in version
  23.0slink1.

We recommand that you upgrade your amd package immediately.

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

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
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  This version of Debian was released only for Intel, the Motorola
  680x0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.

  Source archives:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/amd_upl102-23.slink2.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: 30a6710a9e3fb6dcf46ec7491d157807
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/amd_upl102-23.slink2.dsc
      MD5 checksum: 290f37dc51c2ed86400176fa9bef15ea
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/amd_upl102.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: 76c61a893523001961437475ee2f79c5

  Intel ia32 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/amd_upl102-23.slink2_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: c732a6033245daf368fc1cf77718113e

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-m68k/amd_upl102-23.slink2_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: fe4f88cb3db1c18aeb132d2f60c6e732

  Sun Sparc architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/amd_upl102-23.slink2_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 9f05a455a3be2d237f4bcf093e1696b9


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