The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1573-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst
May 11, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : rdesktop
Vulnerability : several
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-1801 CVE-2008-1802 CVE-2008-1803
Debian Bug : 480133 480134 480135
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in rdesktop, a
Remote Desktop Protocol client. The Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2008-1801
Remote exploitation of an integer underflow vulnerability allows
attackers to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
logged-in user.
CVE-2008-1802
Remote exploitation of a BSS overflow vulnerability allows
attackers to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
logged-in user.
CVE-2008-1803
Remote exploitation of an integer signedness vulnerability allows
attackers to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
logged-in user.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.5.0-1etch2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.5.0-4+cvs20071006.
We recommend that you upgrade your rdesktop package.
Upgrade instructions
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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 4.0 alias etch
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rdesktop/rdesktop_1.5.0-1etch2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 20213 2f0174a7cec7a431f82234c9cebaadd5
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rdesktop/rdesktop_1.5.0.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 245137 433546f60fc0f201e99307ba188369ed
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rdesktop/rdesktop_1.5.0-1etch2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 932 ea3849b040a1fecdbca046458b5c4e22
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rdesktop/rdesktop_1.5.0-1etch2_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 182160 30e6bc460bdfcc99e0d71b6171f90238
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rdesktop/rdesktop_1.5.0-1etch2_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 137356 0cefb8fb94740fbc46feae4f8d8dd888
arm architecture (ARM)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rdesktop/rdesktop_1.5.0-1etch2_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 141908 5f350550c2f54138d9fc2f7f8af24626
hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rdesktop/rdesktop_1.5.0-1etch2_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 145270 9153febda46b7c6a9e892880e0eacc90
i386 architecture (Intel ia32)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rdesktop/rdesktop_1.5.0-1etch2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 123872 608524d02a24a20f4eb4c34ae101d87c
ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rdesktop/rdesktop_1.5.0-1etch2_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 194538 69b2707d0ee990acd980e9dbd44d4a00
mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rdesktop/rdesktop_1.5.0-1etch2_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 146580 c030489088218b9ef271d75c469d50f1
powerpc architecture (PowerPC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rdesktop/rdesktop_1.5.0-1etch2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 141286 dc62405a5d851c189248d23044ce17e6
s390 architecture (IBM S/390)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rdesktop/rdesktop_1.5.0-1etch2_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 144540 aa95e6306a2c643465cc4514463cd967
sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rdesktop/rdesktop_1.5.0-1etch2_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 127814 7a8fd0a99fe22dd98f6bd64bdcd9ce48
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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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 <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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