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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1527-1 (debian-goodies)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to debian-goodies announced via advisory DSA 1527-1.
Insight
Insight
Thomas de Grenier de Latour discovered that the checkrestart tool in the debian-goodies suite of utilities, allowed local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in the name of the executable file for a running process. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.27+etch1. For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 0.23+sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.34. We recommend that you upgrade your debian-goodies package.
Solution
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201527-1