Debian Security Advisory
mtr -- possible local exploit in mtr
- Date Reported:
- 09 Mar 2000
- Affected Packages:
-
mtr
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2000-0172.
- More information:
- The version of mtr as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1
(aka slink) did not drop root privileges correctly. While there are no known
exploits it is conceivable that a weakness in gtk or ncurses could be used to
exploit this. This has been fixed in version 0.28-1, and we recommend that you
upgrade your mtr package.
- Fixed in:
-
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/slink/updates/source/mtr_0.28-1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/slink/updates/source/mtr_0.28-1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/dists/slink/updates/source/mtr_0.28.orig.tar.gz
- alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/slink/updates/binary-alpha/mtr_0.28-1_alpha.deb
- i386:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/slink/updates/binary-i386/mtr_0.28-1_i386.deb
- m68k:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/slink/updates/binary-m68k/mtr_0.28-1_m68k.deb
- sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/slink/updates/binary-sparc/mtr_0.28-1_sparc.deb
