DSA-1473-1 scponly -- design flaw

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1473-1 scponly -- design flaw

Date Reported:

21 Jan 2008

Affected Packages:

scponly

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 437148.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-6350, CVE-2007-6415.

More information:

Joachim Breitner discovered that Subversion support in scponly is inherently insecure, allowing execution of arbitrary commands. Further investigation showed that rsync and Unison support suffer from similar issues. This set of issues has been assigned CVE-2007-6350.

In addition, it was discovered that it was possible to invoke scp with certain options that may lead to the execution of arbitrary commands (CVE-2007-6415).

This update removes Subversion, rsync and Unison support from the scponly package, and prevents scp from being invoked with the dangerous options.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0-1sarge2.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 4.6-1etch4.

The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your scponly package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (oldstable)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.0.orig.tar.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.0-1sarge2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.0-1sarge2.dsc

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.0-1sarge2_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.0-1sarge2_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.0-1sarge2_arm.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.0-1sarge2_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.0-1sarge2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.0-1sarge2_ia64.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.0-1sarge2_m68k.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.0-1sarge2_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.0-1sarge2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.0-1sarge2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.0-1sarge2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.0-1sarge2_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (stable)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.6-1etch4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.6-1etch4.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.6.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.6-1etch4_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.6-1etch4_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.6-1etch4_arm.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.6-1etch4_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.6-1etch4_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.6-1etch4_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.6-1etch4_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.6-1etch4_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.6-1etch4_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.6-1etch4_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/scponly/scponly_4.6-1etch4_sparc.deb

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