DSA-1561-1 ldm -- programming error

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1561-1 ldm -- programming error

Date Reported:

28 Apr 2008

Affected Packages:

ldm

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 469462.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-1293.

More information:

Christian Herzog discovered that within the Linux Terminal Server Project, it was possible to connect to X on any LTSP client from any host on the network, making client windows and keystrokes visible to that host.

NOTE: most ldm installs are likely to be in a chroot environment exported over NFS, and will not be upgraded merely by upgrading the server itself. For example, on the i386 architecture, to upgrade ldm will likely require:

    chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get update
    chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get dist-upgrade

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.99debian11+etch4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2:0.1~bzr20080308-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ldm package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ltsp/ltsp_0.99debian11+etch4.tar.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ltsp/ltsp_0.99debian11+etch4.dsc

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ltsp/ltsp-server-standalone_0.99debian11+etch4_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ltsp/ltsp-client-builder_0.99debian11+etch4_all.udeb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ltsp/ltsp-server_0.99debian11+etch4_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ltsp/ldm_0.99debian11+etch4_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ltsp/ltsp-client_0.99debian11+etch4_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ltsp/ltsp-client_0.99debian11+etch4_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ltsp/ltsp-client_0.99debian11+etch4_arm.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ltsp/ltsp-client_0.99debian11+etch4_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ltsp/ltsp-client_0.99debian11+etch4_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ltsp/ltsp-client_0.99debian11+etch4_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ltsp/ltsp-client_0.99debian11+etch4_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ltsp/ltsp-client_0.99debian11+etch4_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ltsp/ltsp-client_0.99debian11+etch4_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/ltsp/ltsp-client_0.99debian11+etch4_s390.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.