The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2006-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Giuseppe Iuculano
March 02, 2010 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : sudo
Vulnerability : several
Problem type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2010-0426 CVE-2010-0427
Debian Bugs : 570737

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in sudo, a program
designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users
database server.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:


CVE-2010-0426:

It was discovered that sudo when a pseudo-command is enabled, permits a
match between the name of the pseudo-command and the name of an
executable file in an arbitrary directory, which allows local users to
gain privileges via a crafted executable file.


CVE-2010-0427:

It was discovered that sudo when the runas_default option is used, does
not properly set group memberships, which allows local users to gain privileges
via a sudo command.


For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.6.9p17-2+lenny1

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.7.2p1-1.2, and will migrate to the testing distribution (squeeze)
shortly.

We recommend that you upgrade your sudo 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 (stable)
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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 22997 9980866e257817e8281fd036141ccbd0
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 1032 fc42a6b45a2e2c114c14cba892635d22
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.9p17.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 593534 60daf18f28e2c1eb7641c4408e244110

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo-ldap_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 202898 6737769fc4f1e939c83eb228d29da8ab
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 189978 aed59dbcd7e7c23c5ebd6b76dda367b6

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo-ldap_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 200664 a4611f65a8c2184fe6e245f72d0e9cb6
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 188312 e8043d4e7b232ebf10fd56d6a8a271c1

arm architecture (ARM)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo-ldap_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 191750 47c1f36f12735a900be955ecd6ffed0c
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 179806 e1c1ab5c915082dee797c3d2fa98bf0c

armel architecture (ARM EABI)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_armel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 179692 0435c6dc5dc0875a9213625d0e2e51f8
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo-ldap_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_armel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 191068 8f167fb52ff3bfba4a22ef713c717b92

hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo-ldap_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 198430 260964e2ecaa461d87966b56b35972ae
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 185798 976f574ff1e528c4239d081a95e04989

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 175988 3d63bc2bc801dbc5ad696a002a250c1f
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo-ldap_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 187528 70c225149240e5b20eae98ba82404de7

ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo-ldap_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 235314 df07cd07c083c673f316f541a1fedae6
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 220036 4cb5d2a2a40f14b0c3029208ee15a8be

mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo-ldap_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 197290 0ac1420accc8bf5e2272838f04a9f994
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 185476 3267192f0ae58a354041166b045d46f8

powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo-ldap_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 201564 1df785382b20f29de5b212981a3cc9a1
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 187018 0d09fc441f760770e7d6557d3604d3e4

s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 186518 0ae97c76541b35b363b045cd8155b3aa
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo-ldap_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 199606 36ecd912df2c504c49d6db7533f59742

sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 180918 ae0eb27537d98dad6338b1b4cce891dd
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sudo/sudo-ldap_1.6.9p17-2+lenny1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 192640 9195914dfa0eb2a8306be4cfe88c6ce2


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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