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Home > Products and services > CSIRTUK advisories > Advisories archive > December 2005 > Debian Security Advisories

December 2005

Debian Security Advisories

ID: 01141
Ref: 1073/2005
Date: 28 December 2005:22:22:11
Version: 1

Title: Debian Security Advisories
Abstract: Details of security advisories concerning ketm, tkdiff and dhis-tools-dns
Vendors affected: Debian
Operating systems affected: Debian
Applications affected: Debian

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 926-2 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
December 23rd, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : ketm
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2005-3535

Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a buffer
overflow in ketm, an old school 2D-scrolling shooter game, that can be
exploited to execute arbitrary code with group games privileges.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.0.6-7woody0.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.0.6-17sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.0.6-17sarge1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ketm 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
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 601 689826ac63e2c43800b4a95477e4e025
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 102455 3d95dffde08a37f92b547b0d5c5cdd1f
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 2300316 815dd1ec3d3e34ed563c2e8b846c1873

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2291294 d3ab0d5c4d226e85b22024ef26225118

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2280012 770c1260ba4f98f207b933b85a76c77b

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2270074 e7d544f6a7c93053e10e6dc57a9cdeca

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2314582 157ce41e4b56f4d04a51ea26e45ea701

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2304688 ae0eee4fac599d235df518c8aed02220

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2265824 e7cf4caad4048013762bf2eef7fbe53c

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2285898 22b5967929450cfae83a009a864a0428

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2285466 67ad79342e043766c18d331d19927928

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2283386 dabfa2d80c5178e7794a45c438dbd405

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2272008 92da299f8c913fdf9bd8decf4176cf2c

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-7woody0_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2276286 3baa3ec01cdb1f9288af03703cfa27d5


Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 618 c16dea02615d3d54ad809da66f353567
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 49309 1db837fff1b5ed5e2a37bc6b3874ca70
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 2300316 815dd1ec3d3e34ed563c2e8b846c1873

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm-data_0.0.6-17sarge1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 2228258 f8e0206d18cb928629636ace10ad898c

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 100182 504db7244cfb3fa3f850d0ee174bf476

AMD64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 69582 2c2efd63e76afe5c680193d489815dec

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 69122 30ff71419a3e106bd067a983ed3db30f

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 61034 a8d7eae4795a1caa3c47dca929e93254

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 126326 728cd5e277b43ac8aef87cf092478168

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 89424 22aba3b17b99631d559d59d19ca0f669

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 50590 ac31fa12be1ac3fad1596d54a41e593b

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 79420 2663c4a81111c9d3c9f43737a6899666

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 79134 c461cd34b6ced500a3622ebaf51bd07b

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 83890 01c28fdaa89ec3aef148c0ac0dc1656a

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 63110 dd95bef4893b7e5a0722d462a3374c6f

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/ketm/ketm_0.0.6-17sarge1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 73232 8e4594ac0f872bad24ef232accb00d9a


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: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 927-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
December 27th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : tkdiff
Vulnerability : insecure temporary file
Problem type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2005-3343

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit project
discovered that tkdiff, a graphical side by side "diff" utility,
creates temporary files in an insecure fashion.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.08-3woody0.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0.2-1sarge0.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0.2-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your tkdiff 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/t/tkdiff/tkdiff_3.08-3woody0.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 568 f331eee995b5ec3b5346b519c7147ee4
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkdiff/tkdiff_3.08-3woody0.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 3685 f00859ddd284e8016728b5a1d00b6fdd
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkdiff/tkdiff_3.08.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 63171 197e9bee9812a5698889c589efd9b1ee

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkdiff/tkdiff_3.08-3woody0_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 67308 7314490886f96610a31f71bc22513c7f


Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkdiff/tkdiff_4.0.2-1sarge0.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 571 e54f2d9fcd23c386640502fbe119e2b0
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkdiff/tkdiff_4.0.2-1sarge0.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 3973 decabcedfbb5b9fc7dfa8a48b661b563
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkdiff/tkdiff_4.0.2.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 86258 c52f7d8d87ebe34fbba6b6bdf30f3c60

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tkdiff/tkdiff_4.0.2-1sarge0_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 85468 c5fe0c83bfb827e2903a045767f03ded


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: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 928-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
December 27th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : dhis-tools-dns
Vulnerability : insecure temporary file
Problem type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2005-3341

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit project
discovered that two scripts in the dhis-tools-dns package, DNS
configuration utilities for a dynamic host information System, which
are usually executed by root, create temporary files in an insecure
fashion.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain a dhis-tools-dns
package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 5.0-3sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 5.0-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your dhis-tools-dns 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 3.1 alias sarge
- - - --------------------------------

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 623 b5bb7245baec1eaea19bca6fed93a20d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 4711 d2095bb5dbd01ad45eac91f17aa71dfa
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 3535 9674e661082ad955010efd6d06686b82

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 7978 207fa0d62d5cf58685f7f0db185e08d4
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 8678 61934b801e98457666f28fd80e43dd53

AMD64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 7592 c98df83e0c69f857ab6d098c4c09ec41
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 8090 b6c4401b2cad0e2cb8fef248a783cc48

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 7432 03343675acb57b139d29ce92e0dd7750
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 7854 d58346c9292b0b5991f83ef3d9dd7a1d

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 7330 29c880357067715b4ea639804f58ee6a
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 7632 523f6a69be038c1d8ccb75f5e0cc2da9

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 8692 091e101db6ebe1088b9f204611d6d20d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 9396 3e1d7ed7784f23c2d1437a6c0e935287

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 8106 40ffc96aa7b1bdbdf075a45ff4a020ca
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 8666 528294b6c32e7d694d7f5336294fccae

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 7352 6c552aa90253a73c05203cc23fc08a49
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 7774 6f56252d7552d86f1c26e61efe497b79

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 8292 5874ebc2df9870cf2fa8025d32954051
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 9970 8f0fe90a8941022445814684fb334f65

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 8320 21e2f84d584507d08c134775832b4adf
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 9938 16489ad8581b62e81b48da09b8b29fad

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 7778 a8b6300d9aa94a46b3a0b58ed0ca8333
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 9404 064c6072f9f0aac62f474cff127dad15

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 7736 6f4731b8f9e8b433537ce710b048db0f
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 8182 cc1d5ed072b00670b6a5b970c2ac8629

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-dns_5.0-3sarge1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 7494 48715a9189a4cb3cf514a8bca423d113
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dhis-tools-dns/dhis-tools-genkeys_5.0-3sarge1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 7802 8c3e13cc4b95da0e4abd1926f11cfc94


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: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/

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