Category Archives: Debian

Debian Security Advisories

DSA-3167 sudo – security update

Jakub Wilk reported that sudo, a program designed to provide limited
super user privileges to specific users, preserves the TZ variable from
a user’s environment without any sanitization. A user with sudo access
may take advantage of this to exploit bugs in the C library functions
which parse the TZ environment variable or to open files that the user
would not otherwise be able to open. The later could potentially cause
changes in system behavior when reading certain device special files or
cause the program run via sudo to block.

DSA-3166 e2fsprogs – security update

Jose Duart of the Google Security Team discovered a buffer overflow in
in e2fsprogs, a set of utilities for the ext2, ext3, and ext4 file
systems. This issue can possibly lead to arbitrary code execution if
a malicious device is plugged in, the system is configured to
automatically mount it, and the mounting process chooses to run fsck
on the device’s malicious filesystem.

DSA-3162 bind9 – security update

Jan-Piet Mens discovered that the BIND DNS server would crash when
processing an invalid DNSSEC key rollover, either due to an error on
the zone operator’s part, or due to interference with network traffic
by an attacker. This issue affects configurations with the directives
“dnssec-validation auto;” (as enabled in the Debian default
configuration) or “dnssec-lookaside auto;”.

DSA-3161 dbus – security update

Simon McVittie discovered a local denial of service flaw in dbus, an
asynchronous inter-process communication system. On systems with
systemd-style service activation, dbus-daemon does not prevent forged
ActivationFailure messages from non-root processes. A malicious local
user could use this flaw to trick dbus-daemon into thinking that systemd
failed to activate a system service, resulting in an error reply back to
the requester.