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Debian Security Advisory DSA 675-1 (hztty)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Debian Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
4.6
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
15 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to hztty announced via advisory DSA 675-1.
Insight
Insight
Erik Sjölund discovered that hztty, a converter for GB, Big5 and zW/HZ Chinese encodings in a tty session, can be triggered to execute arbitrary commands with group utmp privileges. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0-5.2woody2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0-6.1. We recommend that you upgrade your hztty package.
Solution
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20675-1