Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1668-1 hf -- programming error

Date Reported:

22 Nov 2008

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 504182.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-2378.

More information:

Steve Kemp discovered that hf, an amateur-radio protocol suite using a soundcard as a modem, insecurely tried to execute an external command which could lead to the elevation of privileges for local users.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.3-4etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8-8.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your hf package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hf/hf_0.7.3-4etch1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hf/hf_0.7.3.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hf/hf_0.7.3-4etch1.dsc
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hf/hf_0.7.3-4etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hf/hf_0.7.3-4etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hf/hf_0.7.3-4etch1_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hf/hf_0.7.3-4etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hf/hf_0.7.3-4etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hf/hf_0.7.3-4etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hf/hf_0.7.3-4etch1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hf/hf_0.7.3-4etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hf/hf_0.7.3-4etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hf/hf_0.7.3-4etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hf/hf_0.7.3-4etch1_sparc.deb

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