Debian Security Advisory
DSA-304-1 lv -- privilege escalation
- Date Reported:
- 15 May 2003
- Affected Packages:
- lv
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 7613.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0188. - More information:
-
Leonard Stiles discovered that lv, a multilingual file viewer, would read options from a configuration file in the current directory. Because such a file could be placed there by a malicious user, and lv configuration options can be used to execute commands, this represented a security vulnerability. An attacker could gain the privileges of the user invoking lv, including root.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.49.4-7woody2.
For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 4.49.3-4potato2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem is fixed in version 4.49.5-2.
We recommend that you update your lv package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.4-7woody2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.4-7woody2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.4-7woody2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.4-7woody2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.4-7woody2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.4-7woody2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.4-7woody2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.4-7woody2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.4-7woody2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.4-7woody2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.4-7woody2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.4-7woody2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.4-7woody2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.4-7woody2_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.3-4potato2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.3-4potato2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.3.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.3-4potato2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.3-4potato2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.3-4potato2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.3-4potato2_i386.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.3-4potato2_m68k.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.3-4potato2_powerpc.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lv/lv_4.49.3-4potato2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.