Package : vbox3 Vulnerability : privilege leak Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Ids : CAN-2004-0015
A bug was discovered in vbox3, a voice response system for isdn4linux, whereby root privileges were not properly relinquished before executing a user-supplied tcl script. By exploiting this vulnerability, a local user could gain root privileges.
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.7.1.
For the unstable distribution, this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.8.
We recommend that you update your vbox3 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 3.0 alias woody --------------------------------