Package : ppxp Vulnerability : missing privilege release Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-0392
Jens Steube discovered that ppxp, yet another PPP program, does not release root privileges when opening potentially user supplied log files. This can be tricked into opening a root shell.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.2001080415-6woody1 (DSA 725-1).
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.2001080415-10sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.2001080415-11.
We recommend that you upgrade your ppxp 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 --------------------------------