-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-032-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman March 7, 2001 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package: proftpd Vulnerability: proftpd running as root, /var symlink removal Debian-specific: yes The following problems have been reported for the version of proftpd in Debian 2.2 (potato): 1. There is a configuration error in the postinst script, when the user enters 'yes', when asked if anonymous access should be enabled. The postinst script wrongly leaves the 'run as uid/gid root' configuration option in /etc/proftpd.conf, and adds a 'run as uid/gid nobody' option that has no effect. 2. There is a bug that comes up when /var is a symlink, and proftpd is restarted. When stopping proftpd, the /var symlink is removed; when it's started again a file named /var is created. The above problems have been corrected in proftpd-1.2.0pre10-2.0potato1. We recommend you upgrade your proftpd package immediately. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato - ------------------------------------- Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc architectures. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/proftpd_1.2.0pre10-2.0potato1.diff.gz MD5 checksum: d75281d5332b005efd94ad0ff5ac3f63 http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/proftpd_1.2.0pre10-2.0potato1.dsc MD5 checksum: 8ff4de189c0b986ab4496ef7ae6467f4 http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/proftpd_1.2.0pre10.orig.tar.gz MD5 checksum: a1c25e59bb4281e2f83000796dc52388 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/proftpd_1.2.0pre10-2.0potato1_alpha.deb MD5 checksum: 2e3d924a93692fc546f76fadf6e35cf7 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/proftpd_1.2.0pre10-2.0potato1_arm.deb MD5 checksum: 2e2e9a921f45c6c73f0c0a1ba2c7fb13 Intel ia32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/proftpd_1.2.0pre10-2.0potato1_i386.deb MD5 checksum: 9c0ff3c87e4802316081775fcf80c5d2 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/proftpd_1.2.0pre10-2.0potato1_m68k.deb MD5 checksum: 615709bf8777da7939217cf316c529b7 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/proftpd_1.2.0pre10-2.0potato1_powerpc.deb MD5 checksum: 5a384113e857ba4a0b6bdcfce62ca880 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/proftpd_1.2.0pre10-2.0potato1_sparc.deb MD5 checksum: c99f335bca49f98867b1a9c473c97edc 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/ . - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBOqWQLajZR/ntlUftAQHWRgL/UhpFFB7Jkdf61VMxkEnhaepLYEvzzP/8 KUbfZvk5GDwFEIR0O/Y6KyNDV5Gn/ttgZ5iPcY05za0vngFMsJ0BuFFmiKkViHle wxcUMvoCiLJQhDWTs18K+k4V9tzL4UUY =Jx23 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]