Debian: New ftpd-ssl packages fix arbitrary code execution
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 896-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze November 15th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : linux-ftpd-ssl Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-3524 Debian Bug : 339074 A buffer overflow has been discovered in ftpd-ssl, a simple BSD FTP server with SSL encryption support, that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain linux-ftpd-ssl packages. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.17.18+0.3-3sarge1 For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your ftpd-ssl 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 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 640 f1999dff20d8e5c7bebbdf3ae08d9fbc Size/MD5 checksum: 5157 bb183553291a97a7505dd3eba1ee28aa Size/MD5 checksum: 61388 525f77ad02c5593fa4c5cad9abc337b7 Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 55448 5e4b657d47730305099a47ec2d8c84df AMD64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 50938 87ab0d101dc0e1c14d38888231abf11f ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 49478 d964f72a931cee99c560c1f348b9f733 Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 48598 6092dcf5345c383959b9b8b3a9d9b65f Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 65312 1f80c1ef53e6151a8d7df0ed0f2160cb HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 53384 a247343d426eb9ecff838905432943d8 Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 46112 bedd079aca908ad7f31f7fb8fe0ecab7 Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 52262 fe07040d4d3db4fe2cd4e02c873131ee Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 52074 5b1e112532d8b07ab278d036515d85d3 PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 52050 bd09d568c4e634670c698dbe33cd4775 IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 51862 d4cb84830ca8a631ed5e08344e286b18 Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 48822 d47e7a161940d64f82a7edb87df7ff3e 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
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