Debian Security Advisory DSA 664-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
February 2nd, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
Package : cpio
Vulnerability : broken file permissions
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-1999-1572
It has been discovered, that cpio, a program to manage archives of
files, creates output files with -O and -F with broken permissions due
to a reset zero umask which allows local users to read or overwrite
those files.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4.2-39woody1
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your cpio 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 3.0 alias woody
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 549 45ee6d04cffc59c6e0d125ab269d8672
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 22965 a5db2ad1ec00b2825bbdf4f0acaf8a84
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 181728 3e976db71229d52a8a135540698052df
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 73064 029c7d1de8bff5d6f63c7702455c0e17
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 63746 05f2cee18a28822b4fbe0d54f2b0efcf
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 61382 2011b7b05347a22780fe5a2d2da77923
Intel IA-64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 84938 173755073bd59fee905debce08456824
HP Precision architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 69512 e950b2aa1f51a0f9412c319888882496
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 59714 c6c591c1839c464fb0cb2294d1758875
Big endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 69094 8aee70b66943403293252649d4879134
Little endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 68806 9e761f1fe3d156c5c557d3a28d51ab37
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 64084 f0fa8bf78610ed20b6135b4c7c04436c
IBM S/390 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 63866 ba0b403eaee5bcd05d8d0cbf3c48cfcb
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 65818 f5e0c10d8e46321e8c584454402512c5
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]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Debian | 3 | i386 | cpio | < 2.4.2-39woody1 | cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_i386.deb |
Debian | 3 | ia64 | cpio | < 2.4.2-39woody1 | cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_ia64.deb |
Debian | 3 | alpha | cpio | < 2.4.2-39woody1 | cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_alpha.deb |
Debian | 3 | sparc | cpio | < 2.4.2-39woody1 | cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_sparc.deb |
Debian | 3 | mips | cpio | < 2.4.2-39woody1 | cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_mips.deb |
Debian | 3 | powerpc | cpio | < 2.4.2-39woody1 | cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_powerpc.deb |
Debian | 3 | mipsel | cpio | < 2.4.2-39woody1 | cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_mipsel.deb |
Debian | 3 | m68k | cpio | < 2.4.2-39woody1 | cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_m68k.deb |
Debian | 3 | all | cpio | < 2.4.2-39woody1 | cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_all.deb |
Debian | 3 | arm | cpio | < 2.4.2-39woody1 | cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_arm.deb |