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Security problem - race condition in ncpmount

This is my second attempt to send an e-mail about this to debian-private -
sorry if you get this twice:

I'm afraid I don't currently have enough time to keep up with my debian
commitments.  I still occasionally look at some of debian-devel, but I
don't have time to do much else. 

I intend to catch up in a few weeks time, but until then I would
appreciate it if somebody could look after any urgent problems with my
packages, e2fsprogs, ncpfs, ipx and umsdos. 


I'm sending this message now because I recently checked the linux-security
list, and read a message from David Holland regarding a race condition in
the ncpmount program, which is setuid root.  Exploitation _might_ lead to
a root comprimise, so I would appreciate it if somebody could upload an
update of the ncpfs package, with the setuid bits removed, and maybe a
message could be sent to debian-user with the same instruction, ( chmod
u-s /usr/bin/ncp{u,}mount ).

I haven't had enough time to look into this in detail, so I'm not sure
about any of this.

I've already modified the source, and created a ncpfs_0.23-2.tar.gz in my
home directory on master, but I don't have root access to a networked
linux machine at the mo, so I can't build the ".deb" archive.

Feel free to e-mail me for further details if you need them.

Please Cc me on any list reply,

Thanks,

Michael.