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Re: Debian not vulnerable to recent cron buffer overflow
From: ethan () MATHWORKS COM (Ethan King)
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:07:31 -0400
Debian has discovered this bug two years ago and fixed it. Therefore versions in both, the stable and the unstable, distributions of Debian are not vulnerable to this problem..
Regardless of which, I was successfully able to take advantage of the overflow on Debian (GNU/Linux) 2.1, every time, every machine. However the patch which was supplied to this list earlier in the week indeed fixes the issue. URL re-posted below...
Does anyone know if Debian never sent the fix to Paul Vixie, or if it was sent and Paul "missed it"?
Seems like a good question. But it's really old news at this point, and some of it has been for quite a while now. --Ethan -- Ethan King Unix Group, SSG. The MathWorks 1999 -- [re-posted from aleph1's forward from debian, earlier this week] We recommend you upgrade your cron package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink -------------------------------- This version of Debian was released only for the Intel, the Motorola 68xxx, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/cron_3.0pl1-50.2.diff .gz MD5 checksum: 96a4b55e06127c4a6cf31ee511227adb http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/cron_3.0pl1-50.2.dsc MD5 checksum: 3998735f00d3f10a5e290227db6bf611 http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/cron_3.0pl1.orig.tar. gz MD5 checksum: 4c64aece846f8483daf440f8e3dd210f Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/cron_3.0pl1-50. 2_alpha.deb MD5 checksum: cbab162fffd7dba71373b3eb62201b52 Intel ia32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/cron_3.0pl1-50.2 _i386.deb MD5 checksum: 85d9ffff103d0121101b7b80817d0abe Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-m68k/cron_3.0pl1-50.2 _m68k.deb MD5 checksum: 62a039991c237a92c4a3cdcef4a328d7 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/cron_3.0pl1-50. 2_sparc.deb MD5 checksum: 56f5e099ab621572b560706e1eec9ebb Debian GNU/Linux pre2.2 alias potato ------------------------------------ Source archives: http://security.debian.org/dists/unstable/updates/source/cron_3.0pl1-52.diff .gz MD5 checksum: f500a0dc7175d64de4822f159a51d739 http://security.debian.org/dists/unstable/updates/source/cron_3.0pl1-52.dsc MD5 checksum: 1a16af335a106805ecdd6585a75ee61a http://security.debian.org/dists/unstable/updates/source/cron_3.0pl1.orig.ta r.gz MD5 checksum: 4c64aece846f8483daf440f8e3dd210f Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/unstable/updates/binary-alpha/cron_3.0pl1-5 2_alpha.deb MD5 checksum: 8e5246a79269b8f489a3cdb7efc41661 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/unstable/updates/binary-arm/cron_3.0pl1-52_ arm.deb MD5 checksum: 8d103d4a60ec94d1f0fb07caabd34575 Intel ia32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/unstable/updates/binary-i386/cron_3.0pl1-52 _i386.deb MD5 checksum: a7f8de4f43aa21e2fe94fe602c6c2c83 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/unstable/updates/binary-m68k/cron_3.0pl1-52 _m68k.deb MD5 checksum: b2e866ecc10e95094202327eab5fc0fd PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/unstable/updates/binary-powerpc/cron_3.0pl1 -52_powerpc.deb MD5 checksum: 058a25564bc7c9c6fb153eafa0126cee Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/unstable/updates/binary-sparc/cron_3.0pl1-5 2_sparc.deb MD5 checksum: ed34f37c41d9322ba094ede04d8d2e16 For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates Mailing list: debian-security-announce () lists debian org
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