Re: Bug#762789: proposed fix for ppp CVE-2014-3158

2014-10-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 16, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > If Marco doesn't want to do it, let me know and I can take care of the > upload + announce for squeeze-lts. I do not really use pppd anymore and my co-maintainer does not have much time either, so I do not really have plans to work on it right now. (Yes, I hav

Re: Bug#762789: proposed fix for ppp CVE-2014-3158

2014-10-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 02:30 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Oct 16, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > > > > > Thanks. How do you wish to proceed? > > I suggest that you just upload the package. > > Just to be clear, I'm not (yet) a Debian Maintainer, so I

Re: Bug#762789: proposed fix for ppp CVE-2014-3158

2014-10-15 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 02:30 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 16, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > > > Thanks. How do you wish to proceed? > I suggest that you just upload the package. Just to be clear, I'm not (yet) a Debian Maintainer, so I don't have upload rights, or the right to send out the DLA

Re: Bug#762789: proposed fix for ppp CVE-2014-3158

2014-10-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 16, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > Thanks. How do you wish to proceed? I suggest that you just upload the package. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: proposed fix for ppp CVE-2014-3158

2014-10-15 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 01:36 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 16, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > > > I've prepared a a fix for CVE-2014-3158, an integer overflow potentially > > permitting a user in the dip group to abuse the privileges of the setuid > > root pppd binary by supplying a very, very lon

proposed fix for ppp CVE-2014-3158

2014-10-15 Thread Andrew Bartlett
I've prepared a a fix for CVE-2014-3158, an integer overflow potentially permitting a user in the dip group to abuse the privileges of the setuid root pppd binary by supplying a very, very long options line in ~/.ppprc. Please review the attached debdiff for squeeze-lts (the other distributions al

Re: proposed fix for ppp CVE-2014-3158

2014-10-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 16, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > I've prepared a a fix for CVE-2014-3158, an integer overflow potentially > permitting a user in the dip group to abuse the privileges of the setuid > root pppd binary by supplying a very, very long options line in > ~/.ppprc. Is this actually known to be exploi