Bug#559842: CVE-2009-3736 local privilege escalation

2009-12-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 09:41:46PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 08:13:23PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 07:39:59PM +0100, Sune Vuorela wrote: I am wondering, though, why proftpd ships its own copy of libltdl instead of using

Bug#559842: CVE-2009-3736 local privilege escalation

2009-12-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 15, Francesco P. Lovergine fran...@debian.org wrote: I'm not happy of having to run autotools at every build or maintaining another ugly autoconf patch of such a kind. It's not like you have a choice anyway, autoreconfiguration is mandatory for packages which use libtool. Look at the

Bug#559842: CVE-2009-3736 local privilege escalation

2009-12-14 Thread Sune Vuorela
On Sunday 13 December 2009 12:13:38 Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: Package: proftpd-dfsg Version: 1.3.0-1 As already communicated to secteam on friday, this issue does not apply even with old versions, because external modules are taken from the /usr/lib/proftpd directory only in mod_dso.c.

Bug#559842: CVE-2009-3736 local privilege escalation

2009-12-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 07:39:59PM +0100, Sune Vuorela wrote: I am wondering, though, why proftpd ships its own copy of libltdl instead of using the system version, which would avoid this kind of bugs to be have to be fixed in proftpd at all. This is completely another problem. Indeed

Bug#559842: CVE-2009-3736 local privilege escalation

2009-12-14 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 08:13:23PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 07:39:59PM +0100, Sune Vuorela wrote: I am wondering, though, why proftpd ships its own copy of libltdl instead of using the system version, which would avoid this kind of bugs to be have to

Bug#559842: CVE-2009-3736 local privilege escalation

2009-12-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
Package: proftpd-dfsg Severity: grave Tags: security Hi, The following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities Exposures) id was published for libtool. I have determined that this package embeds a vulnerable copy of the libtool source code. However, since this is a mass bug filing (due to so many