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Debian Security Advisory DSA 299-1                     security@debian.org 
Debian -- Security Information                              Matt Zimmerman
May 6th, 2003                            Debian -- Debian security FAQ 
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Package        : leksbot
Vulnerability  : improper setuid-root execution
Problem-Type   : local
Debian-specific: yes

Maurice Massar discovered that, due to a packaging error, the program
/usr/bin/KATAXWR was inadvertently installed setuid root.  This
program was not designed to run setuid, and contained multiple
vulnerabilities which could be exploited to gain root privileges.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2-3.1.

The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain a leksbot
package.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2-5.

We recommend that you update your leksbot package.

Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
        will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
        will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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  Source archives:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:      577 759aa0713d4f7b013a079f1626bd5cc4
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:     3057 66f10753677699aca83250096e72e9b3
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    46440 24011cfeb132d4498eca1006c5f2781d

  Alpha architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    56260 91b9b0da8d67c907a60af95d8a4054d1

  ARM architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    53778 0fc4c2932cc2da3836926f0b436b493e

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    53896 ebca7805ce1b96dcba719a8dcf173999

  Intel IA-64 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    55548 0d497081ffa4f4c7e868bceae5e941be

  HP Precision architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    54688 b34bf7355d5be83596f445aeb7f0d07c

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    53812 e6b6422a1bbd38c03a662d7452a6682f

  Big endian MIPS architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    54116 81f5e3775bed2907939c023771c863a0

  Little endian MIPS architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    54098 6d856a3a98b751b9ab191f0797b83556

  PowerPC architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    54022 d8dc441cd826e18ab80b2719894dd06d

  IBM S/390 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    54370 35e5441499d07080b682368d5d5a10cc

  Sun Sparc architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    57252 21fc8189326e1bbf1c12e833f94c6cb4
  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next revision.

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