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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1767-1] New multipath-tools packages fix denial of serv

    From Nico Golde@1:229/2 to All on Thu Apr 9 16:30:28 2009
    From: [email protected]

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    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-1767-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde April 9th, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - --------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package : multipath-tools
    Vulnerability : insecure file permissions
    Problem type : local
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE ID : CVE-2009-0115
    Debian Bug : 522813


    It was discovered that multipathd of multipath-tools, a tool-chain to manage disk multipath device maps, uses insecure permissions on its unix domain control socket which enables local attackers to issue commands to multipathd prevent access to storage devices or corrupt file system data.


    For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
    version 0.4.7-1.1etch2.

    For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
    version 0.4.8-14+lenny1.

    For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.

    For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
    version 0.4.8-15.


    We recommend that you upgrade your multipath-tools packages.

    Upgrade instructions
    - --------------------

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

    If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
    sources.list as given below:

    apt-get update
    will update the internal database
    apt-get upgrade
    will install corrected packages

    You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
    footer to the proper configuration.


    Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
    - -------------------------------

    Debian (oldstable)
    - ------------------

    Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/multipath-tools/multipath-tools_0.4.7-1.1etch2.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 794 96af45800ec71a9fcf8f811416ff90e7
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/multipath-tools/multipath-tools_0.4.7.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 179914 b14f35444f6fee34b6be49a79ebe9439
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/multipath-tools/multipath-tools_0.4.7-1.1etch2.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 25941 971e214f6a43d817da8da4dcc3763443

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/multipath-tools/multipath-tools_0.4.7-1.1etch2_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 189648 b656f97eb5932ef8a5c7da0f82a84137

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/multipath-tools/multipath-tools_0.4.7-1.1etch2_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 176688 a51f613920761e339ed609d5894ce7eb

    hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/multipath-tools/multipath-tools_0.4.7-1.1etch2_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 173368 2e4e0cd06f1da7b52763595e61ba500d

    i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/multipath-tools/multipath-tools_0.4.7-1.1etch2_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 150996 48c1d3875c6d379fc0a62e8c1e28666f

    mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/multipath-tools/multipath-tools_0.4.7-1.1etch2_mips.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 178114 3fbf325989232f9d696a3bcfbfdf89d1

    mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/multipath-tools/multipath-tools_0.4.7-1.1etch2_mipsel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 176212 d72b286ae168caa5947cab12db6e8e2b

    powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/multipath-tools/multipath-tools_0.4.7-1.1etch2_powerpc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 161776 923e02c8131bbfd298bd2958637fc90b

    s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/multipath-tools/multipath-tools_0.4.7-1.1etch2_s390.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 185228 b91cf8601d239237884cd0e03fa67b60

    sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/multipath-tools/multipath-tools_0.4.7-1.1etch2_sparc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 154464 a36b4c818a9dbe7b7c8e61722a70dee6


    Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny
    - --------------------------------

    Debian (stable)
    - ---------------

    Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/multipath-tools/multipath-tools_0.4.8-14+lenny1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1375 04c428b50412dcfe7cefecce779bdd82
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/multipath-tools/multipath-tools_0.4.8-14+lenny1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 22746 ec09a8b773c890812f68c431024b89b2
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/multipath-tools/multipath-tools_0.4.8.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 202446 bf67b278e4b23da0c8ad21a278c04cb3

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/multipath-tools/multipath-tools-boot_0.4.8-14+lenny1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 10886 3d518147b5389246bb18904f9f77bc83

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/multipath-tools/multipath-udeb_0.4.8-14+lenny1_alpha.udeb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 106966 87e769e197696dcd6f0525be77ec0546
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/multipath-tools/multipath-tools_0.4.8-14+lenny1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 204740 95063bb64a1bba317baecbb5b1bdccbb
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/multipath-tools/kpartx_0.4.8-14+lenny1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 27756 470a9055c75c2676795ed1817da24c18

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))


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