Bug#559842: CVE-2009-3736 local privilege escalation

2009-12-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 15, "Francesco P. Lovergine" wrote: > I'm not happy of having to run autotools at every build or maintaining > another ugly autoconf patch of such a kind. It's not like you have a choice anyway, autoreconfiguration is mandatory for packages which use libtool. Look at the udev package for a

Bug#559842: CVE-2009-3736 local privilege escalation

2009-12-15 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 09:41:46PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 08:13:23PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 07:39:59PM +0100, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > > > > > I am wondering, though, why proftpd ships its own copy of libltdl instead > > > of

Bug#559842: CVE-2009-3736 local privilege escalation

2009-12-14 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 08:13:23PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 07:39:59PM +0100, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > > > I am wondering, though, why proftpd ships its own copy of libltdl instead > > of > > using the system version, which would avoid this kind of bugs to be

Bug#559842: CVE-2009-3736 local privilege escalation

2009-12-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 07:39:59PM +0100, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > I am wondering, though, why proftpd ships its own copy of libltdl instead of > using the system version, which would avoid this kind of bugs to be have to > be > fixed in proftpd at all. > This is completely another problem. In

Bug#559842: CVE-2009-3736 local privilege escalation

2009-12-14 Thread Sune Vuorela
On Sunday 13 December 2009 12:13:38 Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > Package: proftpd-dfsg > Version: 1.3.0-1 > > As already communicated to secteam on friday, this issue does not > apply even with old versions, because external modules are taken from the > /usr/lib/proftpd directory only in mod_ds

Bug#559842: CVE-2009-3736 local privilege escalation

2009-12-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
Package: proftpd-dfsg Severity: grave Tags: security Hi, The following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was published for libtool. I have determined that this package embeds a vulnerable copy of the libtool source code. However, since this is a mass bug filing (due to so many package