Debian: New dbus packages fix denial of service
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1658-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst October 22, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : dbus Vulnerability : programming error Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-3834 Debian Bug : 501443 Colin Walters discovered that the dbus_signature_validate function in dbus, a simple interprocess messaging system, is prone to a denial of service attack. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2-1+etch2. For the testing distribution (lenny) and unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your dbus package. 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: 824 476bb3df500c50f67b4088317482e0ef Size/MD5 checksum: 19909 27df2fd0bc5cb93069d6c10d89e0214a Size/MD5 checksum: 1400278 0552a9b54beb4a044951b7cdbc8fc855 Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5 checksum: 1623126 68e4e1787515928f95af670ec2677663 alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) Size/MD5 checksum: 403640 fa77ef6e2fc986018a1b6074b3ae9343 Size/MD5 checksum: 184728 631b1a1ed1215eb05a696b40a72db26c Size/MD5 checksum: 378152 662bea6b7c1db00fdf933b53a2334f7d Size/MD5 checksum: 289022 3ebba7555c92b42fdfe9331c35fbafc6 amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) Size/MD5 checksum: 279202 dfbd440a6a800eea8ba2e46b692dd636 Size/MD5 checksum: 348548 ccc32fdddbaca40a7e62cffc250d493a Size/MD5 checksum: 363840 fd13ad30b922eff52503762ba60d08e0 Size/MD5 checksum: 184096 cb1028347d48476de045ad633939119a arm architecture (ARM) Size/MD5 checksum: 331110 508d164df564a28f626b1941bf784bcd Size/MD5 checksum: 183846 34fc9addad9e6e1858107a9382fc89e4 Size/MD5 checksum: 343302 dd43eeb35c44bb838d45d6324f9842fb Size/MD5 checksum: 265858 e2438b408ec289d96454d30c971a1eeb hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) Size/MD5 checksum: 184866 7b0aa00c72398485849a46c3a376b5a3 Size/MD5 checksum: 375644 6146db75333cc23bcf98184886e2358f Size/MD5 checksum: 362346 5002551bf82c33092fdd3fee8356078d Size/MD5 checksum: 285994 55964151812beb09104dadc5fe883ded i386 architecture (Intel ia32) Size/MD5 checksum: 335874 116b0084af4713242092e2b07a64734f Size/MD5 checksum: 349844 cfa20eea1e6e8be195d520199e8415c6 Size/MD5 checksum: 184284 98c8270b762a20bffc194124562c2a68 Size/MD5 checksum: 269032 ebf1993ab8d40f4d10becd43324c3fb7 ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) Size/MD5 checksum: 439328 0e4d4761c026e5d1a1d0fec1a2e2cc59 Size/MD5 checksum: 186576 9a83ca03b18ba3bbaa0e976c73e5ee49 Size/MD5 checksum: 411494 c4e44af1f20c10c57205270249f337a9 Size/MD5 checksum: 322378 94081937e3524ee2faecb311d0b55772 mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 370622 4bdcd5653af2b8d82005e4f517b9b4b4 Size/MD5 checksum: 183866 413cae07b1a9058a0c6aebdd7f8ea027 Size/MD5 checksum: 272250 6d0e938439d3eb8ca62606630b8c3703 Size/MD5 checksum: 359500 7f221dd76f85d4ba43e2f9de932a0e2d mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 184158 fb889a6d77b704244d791a6eacc6bdd7 Size/MD5 checksum: 369594 90c29c9d9647268f0b44b94a01de0f45 Size/MD5 checksum: 358738 cd6052fccfc4fefdda2ca7bf42823922 Size/MD5 checksum: 272356 c61c0d2c433d4300df31bc681d0d0edd powerpc architecture (PowerPC) Size/MD5 checksum: 271688 b4fa35b2b6d5d106043064b321c62ff7 Size/MD5 checksum: 353198 192e72c7dabd1d8d7b64a755293969b9 Size/MD5 checksum: 184192 0a4598f9d41f45a4f8d99982258bc352 Size/MD5 checksum: 335480 4267b587cd7d75ea76dc36ec679bb2d6 s390 architecture (IBM S/390) Size/MD5 checksum: 355016 839cfa24a74c834cba9161faaf7621e0 Size/MD5 checksum: 285310 d7265f270c738d91c19bfaeeff8130a7 Size/MD5 checksum: 184598 86f3ad1f997139c8f2c18105417f369b Size/MD5 checksum: 373294 8e8fbab4cf0f0214dbd64e6faaf1a87a sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC) Size/MD5 checksum: 340024 74d40edc715045d8693421b4093168c8 Size/MD5 checksum: 184162 32f294e0f8a06390053f8592cfce1f4d Size/MD5 checksum: 336182 65adba9662394147aad1d34bb5ac90a4 Size/MD5 checksum: 265080 9d47f318df9648ad5988c36e30d63016 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