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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 22:29:28 +0100
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@soil.nl>
To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: [SECURITY] New version of apcd released
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Debian Security Advisory security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman
February 1, 2000
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Package: apcd
Vulnerability type: symlink attack
Debian-specific: no
The apcd package as shipped in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is vulnerable to
a symlink attack. If the apcd process gets a SIGUSR1 signal it will
dump its status to /tmp/upsstat. However this file is not opened
safely, which makes it a good target for a symlink attack.
This has been fixed in version 0.6a.nr-4slink1. We recommend you upgrade
your apcd package immediately.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
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This version of Debian was released only for Intel ia32, the Motorola
680x0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/apcd_0.6a.nr-4slink1.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 418d34e54e080c2129b8a686e8423d6d
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/apcd_0.6a.nr-4slink1.dsc
MD5 checksum: f9be18f528e8a067696673337e1198ca
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/apcd_0.6a.nr.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 4a714a8de33cc482b678c0d21b26d76e
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/apcd_0.6a.nr-4slink1_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 00210d5c30732f2bbaf68291f2d7e8d8
Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/apcd_0.6a.nr-4slink1_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: cff51852635922507c37f96df99d8e76
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-m68k/apcd_0.6a.nr-4slink1_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 827079cf5f0819653635873ded1f4a75
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/apcd_0.6a.nr-4slink1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: d56b7b9ea14c4af81856dd3e1b480e92
These files will be moved into
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/ soon.
For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .
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