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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1958-1] New libtool packages fix privilege escalation (

    From Raphael Geissert@1:229/2 to All on Tue Dec 29 18:30:02 2009
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1958-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Raphael Geissert
    December 29, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package : libtool
    Vulnerability : privilege escalation
    Problem type : local
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Id(s) : CVE-2009-3736

    It was discovered that ltdl, a system-independent dlopen wrapper for
    GNU libtool, can be tricked to load and run modules from an arbitrary directory, which might be used to execute arbitrary code with the
    privileges of the user running an application that uses libltdl.


    For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
    version 1.5.26-4+lenny1.

    For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
    version 1.5.22-4+etch1.

    For the testing distribution (squeeze) and unstable distribution (sid),
    this problem has been fixed in 2.2.6b-1.


    We recommend that you upgrade your libtool 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/libt/libtool/libtool_1.5.22-4+etch1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 15804 5479bf2874720d1a57bc051938939c0a
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libtool_1.5.22.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 2921483 8e0ac9797b62ba4dcc8a2fb7936412b0
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libtool_1.5.22-4+etch1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 791 928acd111c5fef379758412cc69d6955

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libtool-doc_1.5.22-4+etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 340218 48ef3b50f8af4b55f95ab0537dedeae9

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libtool_1.5.22-4+etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 328232 c46de180b19450c2842198a034c5b8ba
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libltdl3_1.5.22-4+etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 170758 f1ac388e3c8f479fa2e7acca4e05f484
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libltdl3-dev_1.5.22-4+etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 366952 787b6b0712ad3729077a94177c854c50

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libtool_1.5.22-4+etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 327578 64e861399087ac313e9112633e320db0
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libltdl3-dev_1.5.22-4+etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 362486 0cd43dfdfac787ae4f03c99d316ee21c
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libltdl3_1.5.22-4+etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 169952 2383913d7e69ab07a030ed0402e32683

    arm architecture (ARM)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libtool_1.5.22-4+etch1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 329532 1e77e291f168cd28edbe30017ea7b822
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libltdl3-dev_1.5.22-4+etch1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 362006 aeeccab2b130622286ff22a62bbb67f6
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libltdl3_1.5.22-4+etch1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 168932 227df6a702975694b4824277e39397f7

    hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libltdl3_1.5.22-4+etch1_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 171194 547d0ef8dcad18bf6bcf879bee76618e
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libltdl3-dev_1.5.22-4+etch1_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 365948 720bb673659bca908c80a87115ced3b3
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libtool_1.5.22-4+etch1_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 329352 f6201f75e7a6c6571c60f8ea54da9513

    i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libltdl3_1.5.22-4+etch1_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 168334 5f0f5afefa54c57ff00a1688b79daaae
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libtool_1.5.22-4+etch1_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 327562 2f3cf778e937d324b2082286ac531915
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libltdl3-dev_1.5.22-4+etch1_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 361676 ff14fcaece7267e5af27ebf077caf5ea

    ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libltdl3_1.5.22-4+etch1_ia64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 175104 112a54f534e23a3880131c458e957306
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libltdl3-dev_1.5.22-4+etch1_ia64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 369056 b6f2318d1cd51e9faec4c8802cc0de71
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libtool_1.5.22-4+etch1_ia64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 328294 abcb9fe2b00b48274f4e9de0fd27ed50

    mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libltdl3-dev_1.5.22-4+etch1_mips.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 364572 ae6c61c8422bf908dc9b5f18fff01e67
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libltdl3_1.5.22-4+etch1_mips.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 169100 5243a37ce072d6187ea1e34cbf7e6fbf
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libtool_1.5.22-4+etch1_mips.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 328044 378a35600bd73d5e426e5c832f207ac2

    mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libltdl3-dev_1.5.22-4+etch1_mipsel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 364580 79b7a9f63df6e20bfd7746e3ae793ea8
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libt/libtool/libltdl3_1.5.22-4+etch1_mipsel.deb

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