Here are a couple of Debian security notices that may apply to some SL users' configs.
Packages - libmm and openssl Steve ************************************************************************ Package : libmm Vulnerability : insecure temporary files Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id : CAN-2002-0658 Marcus Meissner and Sebastian Krahmer discovered and fixed a temporary file vulnerability in the mm shared memory library. This problem can be exploited to gain root access to a machine running Apache which is linked against this library, if shell access to the user ``www-data'' is already available (which could easily be triggered through PHP). This problem has been fixed in the upstream version 1.2.0 of mm, which will be uploaded to the unstable Debian distribution while this advisory is released. Fixed packages for potato (Debian 2.2) and woody (Debian 3.0) are linked below. We recommend that you upgrade your libmm packages immediately. ************************************************************************************************ Package : openssl Problem type : multiple remote exploits Debian-specific: no CVE : CAN-2002-0655 CAN-2002-0656 CAN-2002-0657 CAN-2002-0659 The OpenSSL development team has announced that a security audit by A.L. Digital Ltd and The Bunker, under the DARPA CHATS program, has revealed remotely exploitable buffer overflow conditions in the OpenSSL code. Additionaly, the ASN1 parser in OpenSSL has a potential DoS attack independently discovered by Adi Stav and James Yonan. CAN-2002-0655 references overflows in buffers used to hold ASCII representations of integers on 64 bit platforms. CAN-2002-0656 references buffer overflows in the SSL2 server implementation (by sending an invalid key to the server) and the SSL3 client implementation (by sending a large session id to the client). The SSL2 issue was also noticed by Neohapsis, who have privately demonstrated exploit code for this issue. CAN-2002-0659 references the ASN1 parser DoS issue. These vulnerabilities have been addressed for Debian 3.0 (woody) in openssl094_0.9.4-6.woody.0, openssl095_0.9.5a-6.woody.0 and openssl_0.9.6c-2.woody.0. These vulnerabilities are also present in Debian 2.2 (potato), but no fix is available at this moment. We recommend you upgrade your OpenSSL as soon as possible. Note that you should restart any daemons running SSL. (E.g., ssh or ssl-enabled apache.) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 ------------------------------------------------------- (un)subscribe: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sql-ledger-users Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
