The Debian Security Team has published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 786-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
August 26th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : simpleproxy
Vulnerability : format string vulnerability
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2005-1857
Ulf Harnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discoverd a
format string vulnerability in simpleproxy, a simple TCP proxy, that
can be exploited via replies from remote HTTP proxies.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.2-3sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.2-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your simpleproxy 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 3.1 alias sarge
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 594 2c6aa98fb81fc04dbf0b6076fa87f4b6
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 31814 47478adee75f80455ad446a215f49123
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 30919 d3323be4ca565eb23b9d67f4832ac47a
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 18244 bacca651f3e700842ad9a6d392c57231
AMD64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 17096 a99039023d08f03001382af31b9b3875
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 14972 5ab9250a124bb40d8460c008e29aa868
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 15390 bf5c2dd83f57033bba837148ce0d7c45
Intel IA-64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 20912 3aa890e9e3c3955746cdaf8a62d1a3d6
HP Precision architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 17076 d3b8e78e89ed907fe6ddb7b87a0632bb
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 14616 c37c3520bde1a32b4a656ec24ed4ec04
Big endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 16594 a409b824524147a5b2d3348b4f66cc55
Little endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 16682 b9ea5e19344975bcc63acbcc6f00406f
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 16108 fc936c14530296ae15cdf4b4292d1a24
IBM S/390 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 16730 42401e99d0fac0fda1cc51038006cd3d
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/simpleproxy/simpleproxy_3.2-3sarge1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 15292 e4533f350987e6be26a9af3985dfa875
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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