Max Vozeler wrote:
> Hi security team,
> 
> the loop-aes-utils package in sarge is affected by CAN-2005-2876 
> (#328626). I've prepared a stable-security upload of 2.12p-4sarge1 
> with a fix backported from 2.12r-pre1:
> 
> http://people.debian.org/~xam/security/loop-aes-utils/
> 
> This bug will be fixed in unstable with 2.12p-9 (pending upload).

Thanks a lot.

> Note that this update will not be effective until mount is also
> fixed. The /bin/umount binary from 'mount' is diverted to
> /bin/umount.orig and remains setuid root, so an attacker could 
> just use that binary instead of the one from loop-aes-utils.

Yes, a fix for the original mount is pending already.

Regards,

        Joey

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