Debian: 'cipe' DoS attack vulnerability
Debian: 'cipe' DoS attack vulnerability
Larry McVoy found a bug in the packet handling code for the CIPEVPN package: it did not check if a received packet was too shortand could crash.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-104-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman January 14, 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : cipe Problem type : DoS attack Debian-specific: no Larry McVoy found a bug in the packet handling code for the CIPE VPN package: it did not check if a received packet was too short and could crash. This has been fixed in version 1.3.0-3, and we recommend that you upgrade your cipe packages immediately. Please note that the package only contains the needed kernel patch, you will have to build the kernel modules for your kernel with the updated source from the cipe-source package. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato --------------------------------- Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc. Source archives: https://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/cipe_1.3.0-3.diff.gz MD5 checksum: afbeeab103f402414c22bc039dff7984 https://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/cipe_1.3.0-3.dsc MD5 checksum: f573894eaab254cacd5a256e22423a8e https://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/cipe_1.3.0.orig.tar.gz MD5 checksum: 01269317d3c387713f40b18f73514fb6 Architecture independent archives: https://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-all/cipe-common_1.3.0-3_all.deb MD5 checksum: bbfe46765a76bce4f4ce6f9855eee717 https://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-all/cipe-source_1.3.0-3_all.deb MD5 checksum: c380864ae382aff742f08869f89848f6 These packages will be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- apt-get: deb https://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.