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Debian 4.0 DSA-1597-2 Moderate: mt-daapd Authentication Flaw Regression Fix

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Calendar Grey August 30, 2008
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1597-3 addresses an issue in the OpenSSH package that emerged following the remediation of previous security flaws.
In DSA-1597-1, an update was announced for multiple vulnerabilities in the mt-daapd audio server

Summary


CVE-2007-5824

Insufficient validation and bounds checking of the Authorization:
HTTP header enables a heap buffer overflow, potentially enabling
the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2007-5825

Format string vulnerabilities in debug logging within the
authentication of XML-RPC requests could enable the execution of
arbitrary code.

CVE-2008-1771

An integer overflow weakness in the handling of HTTP POST
variables could allow a heap buffer overflow and potentially
arbitrary code execution.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.2.4+r1376-1.1+etch2.

We recommend that you upgrade your mt-daapd 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 u...

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