Debian Security Advisory
DSA-557-1 rp-pppoe -- missing privilege dropping
- Date Reported:
- 04 Oct 2004
- Affected Packages:
- rp-pppoe, pppoe
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0564.
- More information:
-
Max Vozeler discovered a vulnerability in pppoe, the PPP over Ethernet driver from Roaring Penguin. When the program is running setuid root (which is not the case in a default Debian installation), an attacker could overwrite any file on the file system.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.3-1.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.5-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your pppoe package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/rp-pppoe_3.3-1.2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/rp-pppoe_3.3-1.2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/rp-pppoe_3.3.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/rp-pppoe_3.3-1.2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.3-1.2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.