Debian: New libnss-ldap packages fix denial of service
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1430-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp December 11, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : libnss-ldap Vulnerability : denial of service Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-5794 Debian Bug : 453868 It was reported that a race condition exists in libnss-ldap, an NSS module for using LDAP as a naming service, which could cause denial of service attacks when applications use pthreads. This problem was spotted in the dovecot IMAP/POP server but potentially affects more programs. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 251-7.5etch1. For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 238-1sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 256-1. We recommend that you upgrade your libnss-ldap 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: 219945 97fd929b381329b972b3c3ddca5a4bbf Size/MD5 checksum: 26236 c7191ee3845dc23ccf2712e78daed8f1 Size/MD5 checksum: 681 3176fefa1d8d04afa9d3b458e40694a6 alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) Size/MD5 checksum: 86756 30a9c1691dcec614e36fdea923ba3906 amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) Size/MD5 checksum: 80218 18d9da468326040f466c10cac6f50734 arm architecture (ARM) Size/MD5 checksum: 79216 adf473266dd1de600cc0360f697ec7d2 hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) Size/MD5 checksum: 86324 f98ade45a20c5426ef30cb1290e34164 i386 architecture (Intel ia32) Size/MD5 checksum: 78894 7bb744d57899867a0b1c326372de76ce ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) Size/MD5 checksum: 91930 d25cce59d45f8b8dc90b0fe3fcbf3ce0 m68k architecture (Motorola Mc680x0) Size/MD5 checksum: 76894 3c574bc294eb02c337664de43e814f7f mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 80482 0e54d051dde87e3b7984650c47bc3b3e mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 80594 9f3f4b5d6d7c9e6f84edd9ab40767e04 powerpc architecture (PowerPC) Size/MD5 checksum: 81652 7ca152887a041fc3dc674a77e707d23f s390 architecture (IBM S/390) Size/MD5 checksum: 83806 eab2386a51d35e31a4dd7fd0ed832a6d sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC) Size/MD5 checksum: 79224 7d2ec91b89037fd137e98d3640ba1bb4 Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch - -------------------------------Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 149322 04aa24732e69f40e5c3ab629b7e412d4 Size/MD5 checksum: 228931 a80718b3f7cf46f2579a26f9d6fbcd46 Size/MD5 checksum: 683 007acb586d8bf61058c446a08aae4804 alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) Size/MD5 checksum: 108812 1150911f5446d2bc7838fd3d9d56329d amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) Size/MD5 checksum: 105206 7f2e2292e5c213a4d59e0c7240a9ca7e arm architecture (ARM) Size/MD5 checksum: 103946 bb4984bf517834f0278f00e8ba32a4ba hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) Size/MD5 checksum: 111288 2a7f758efdf03c296b2feea08205cdc7 i386 architecture (Intel ia32) Size/MD5 checksum: 103732 0f29d1991d204b4a710e5f74bf056984 ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) Size/MD5 checksum: 120362 e5649299793b90c3987305ac2212afad mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 105148 1f42e34610dc974a6a5ff19a2dff1b24 mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 105360 af1ff4fd5a543b50f704a022798ebed0 powerpc architecture (PowerPC) Size/MD5 checksum: 106458 13b702d831bde6e52507fdd466573122 s390 architecture (IBM S/390) Size/MD5 checksum: 108466 10bc9129adbc56dd6c75569fc27a221c sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC) Size/MD5 checksum: 103134 12c84546a715bca647b86943a226b361 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