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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 2087-1] New cabextract packages fix arbitrary code exec

    From Moritz Muehlenhoff@1:229/2 to All on Wed Aug 4 06:10:01 2010
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-2087-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
    August 04, 2010 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package : cabextract
    Vulnerability : programming error
    Problem type : local(remote)
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Id(s) : CVE-2010-2801

    It was discovered that a programming error in the archive test mode of cabextract, a program to extract Microsoft Cabinet files, could lead to
    the execution of arbitrary code.

    For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
    version 1.2-3+lenny1.

    For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

    We recommend that you upgrade your cabextract package.

    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 5.0 alias lenny
    - --------------------------------

    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/c/cabextract/cabextract_1.2-3+lenny1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 12789 59cdfd8b274110f63d1beb1270c52e34
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_1.2.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 194006 dc421a690648b503265c82ade84e143e
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_1.2-3+lenny1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 998 f2c2dc4b8af289ec37195023ad189869

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_1.2-3+lenny1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 59536 243aa2fa601416f5acd638c6a17a9ad2

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_1.2-3+lenny1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 55546 a5624b197fe5bdf751d1f921b7644a82

    arm architecture (ARM)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_1.2-3+lenny1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 55500 6788e3148a1802bf7dd028c4aa338b9c

    armel architecture (ARM EABI)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_1.2-3+lenny1_armel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 55674 6fe60d3d8cc54202c93b9876529aec39

    i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_1.2-3+lenny1_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 55246 7bfc1b77c7e0eafccf57ba15183b714f

    ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_1.2-3+lenny1_ia64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 73968 418f4acb6fd4c76212fe8b8f035a9ef1

    mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_1.2-3+lenny1_mips.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 56558 ec0192d5a6a4bf58e8635a4bce1d91df

    mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_1.2-3+lenny1_mipsel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 56266 9ed34aa46e5f892814c899ce47ba194d

    powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_1.2-3+lenny1_powerpc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 57348 1f9a74ca9c84eb6bbf1229669e54eca1

    s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_1.2-3+lenny1_s390.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 56782 f23310e7a6e249c6c1d27a3db1fcf553

    sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cabextract/cabextract_1.2-3+lenny1_sparc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 54192 b2c7a8a5e74ae9432f79329736002038


    These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
    its next update.

    - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
    For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
    Mailing list: [email protected]
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