Debian: DSA-3956-1: connman security update

Date 27 Aug 2017

Category Debian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

Security consultants in NRI Secure Technologies discovered a stack overflow vulnerability in ConnMan, a network manager for embedded devices. An attacker with control of the DNS responses to the DNS proxy in ConnMan might crash the service and, in same cases, remotely execute

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3956-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/ Luciano Bello
August 27, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : connman
CVE ID : CVE-2017-12865
Debian Bug : 872844

Security consultants in NRI Secure Technologies discovered a stack
overflow vulnerability in ConnMan, a network manager for embedded
devices. An attacker with control of the DNS responses to the DNS proxy
in ConnMan might crash the service and, in same cases, remotely execute
arbitrary commands in the host running the service.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed
in version 1.21-1.2+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.33-3+deb9u1.

For the testing distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed
in version 1.33-3+deb9u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.35-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your connman packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

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