Debian: New aircrack-ng packages fix arbitrary code execution
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 1280-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff April 24th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : aircrack-ng Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2007-2057 It was discovered that aircrack-ng, a WEP/WPA security analysis tool, performs insufficient validation of 802.11 authentication packets, which allows the execution of arbitrary code. The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain aircrack-ng packages. For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.2-7etch1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.7-3. We recommend that you upgrade your aircrack-ng packages. Packages for the arm, sparc and mipsen architectures are not yet available. They will be provided later. Upgrade Instructions - --------------------wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch - ------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 661 872aff5e32ad5c89a779578e3830b32d Size/MD5 checksum: 47734 58cbd2a08adce2136967789ddf21fcac Size/MD5 checksum: 150501 0b1a9fb6818822f933336efc9fff316b Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 9132 6830331627fb76889703644c6d93d607 Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 238954 9240aecb7ee517da7d32e5f122313844 AMD64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 190972 12cb6f920db553bb1a76d1f4dc36bad2 HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 205880 34a2bc35ae45b53376906eb5485f4685 Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 192166 2be2b95c98f9de66886765c18335f9b9 Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 268668 bc4ac4de85d212913cfb267c6472ed65 PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 199288 bdf1467b714b6b9e3c7f6d2b4b874dcf IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 204934 88c3a532d8933130626f3a02b8b7cd35 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org