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Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 930-1] New smstools packages fix format string vulnerability



Michael Stone wrote:
Vulnerability  : format string attack
Problem-Type   : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID         : CVE-2006-0083

Ulf Harnhammar from the Debian Security Audit project discovered a
format string attack in the logging code of smstools, which may be
exploited to execute arbitary code with root privileges.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain smstools package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.14.8-1sarge0.

For the unstable distribution the package will be updated shortly.
It's great to hear that unstable will be fixed soon, but why wasn't there a grave bug filed against the package? If for some reason the maintainer misses this DSA, it is lateron unknown that the version in unstable is vulnerable and still needs to be fixed...


Thijs



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