Debian Security Advisory
DSA-461-1 calife -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 11 Mar 2004
- Affected Packages:
- calife
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9756.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0188. - More information:
-
Leon Juranic discovered a buffer overflow related to the getpass(3) library function in calife, a program which provides super user privileges to specific users. A local attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, given knowledge of a local user's password and the presence of at least one entry in /etc/calife.auth, to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.4c-1woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.6-1.
We recommend that you update your calife package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/calife/calife_2.8.4c-1woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.