DSA-1106-1 ppp -- programming error

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1106-1 ppp -- programming error

Date Reported:

10 Jul 2006

Affected Packages:

ppp

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2194.

More information:

Marcus Meissner discovered that the winbind plugin in pppd does not check whether a setuid() call has been successful when trying to drop privileges, which may fail with some PAM configurations.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.4rel-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ppp package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp-dev_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.3-20050321+2sarge1_sparc.deb

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