debian-goodies vulnerability

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-526-1           October 04, 2007
debian-goodies vulnerability
CVE-2007-3912
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Ubuntu 6.10
Ubuntu 7.04

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to
the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
  debian-goodies                  0.23ubuntu0.6.06.1

Ubuntu 6.10:
  debian-goodies                  0.23ubuntu0.6.10.1

Ubuntu 7.04:
  debian-goodies                  0.27ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to
affect the
necessary changes.

Details follow:

Thomas de Grenier de Latour discovered that the checkrestart
program included
in debian-goodies did not correctly handle shell
meta-characters.  A local
attacker could exploit this to gain the privileges of the
user running
checkrestart.


Updated packages for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:

  Source archives:

    http://securit
y.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodie
s_0.23ubuntu0.6.06.1.dsc
      Size/MD5:      541 bf3ec3bbbb718a4bdbc33c9377391207
    http://secu
rity.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goo
dies_0.23ubuntu0.6.06.1.tar.gz
      Size/MD5:    11792 81c701f4b438547941fc3e197fb84e0d

  Architecture independent packages:

    http://sec
urity.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-go
odies_0.23ubuntu0.6.06.1_all.deb
      Size/MD5:    22430 30e986cc78aa15144858ec2c6f9539bf

Updated packages for Ubuntu 6.10:

  Source archives:

    http://securit
y.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodie
s_0.23ubuntu0.6.10.1.dsc
      Size/MD5:      541 76c493e084ce3ac73a5cf4c5aae9b8cc
    http://secu
rity.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goo
dies_0.23ubuntu0.6.10.1.tar.gz
      Size/MD5:    11786 110c79f2b89ca619fe984b24782b0aa6

  Architecture independent packages:

    http://sec
urity.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-go
odies_0.23ubuntu0.6.10.1_all.deb
      Size/MD5:    22406 9ad478564241816893d229ab92ae3c00

Updated packages for Ubuntu 7.04:

  Source archives:

    http://security.ubu
ntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodies_0.2
7ubuntu0.1.dsc
      Size/MD5:      634 b918441edd5ef83334adc790bddf89bd
    http://security.
ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodies_
0.27ubuntu0.1.tar.gz
      Size/MD5:    29044 586174400e41386bb78d4764fdad755a

  Architecture independent packages:

    http://security
.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodies
_0.27ubuntu0.1_all.deb
      Size/MD5:    36804 548f700ef0b6c09dc8daaed38f0ab367


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