Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2945-1 chkrootkit -- security update

Date Reported:
03 Jun 2014
Affected Packages:
chkrootkit
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-0476.
More information:

Thomas Stangner discovered a vulnerability in chkrootkit, a rootkit detector, which may allow local attackers to gain root access when /tmp is mounted without the noexec option.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.49-4.1+deb7u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.49-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your chkrootkit packages.