Debian: New no-ip packages fix arbitrary code execution
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1686-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff December 14, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : no-ip Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-5297 Debian Bug : 506179 A buffer overflow has been discovered in the HTTP parser of the No-IP.com Dynamic DNS update client, which may result in the execution of arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.1-4+etch1. For the upcoming stable distribution (lenny) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.7-11. We recommend that you upgrade your no-ip 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 - -------------------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 5099 991539fbaabc7808f1e6540e6d2a7d37 Size/MD5 checksum: 70553 a743fcd40699596d25347083eca86d52 Size/MD5 checksum: 573 a46cc0befc6409b256e76abceec2bba8 alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) Size/MD5 checksum: 25552 72ada61d338c9ca7ccf22de55168de1b amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) Size/MD5 checksum: 22740 eea473fb4410d7b7953150139378b56c arm architecture (ARM) Size/MD5 checksum: 21486 eb86554f2e2b20c382810bcfce21ac96 hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) Size/MD5 checksum: 23778 7212e0f6ef1b749de5531ff279fe63d1 i386 architecture (Intel ia32) Size/MD5 checksum: 20838 44598c7737861f61e7c6f012c65228f7 ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) Size/MD5 checksum: 30888 ba8e62cc6fe5bf70631710b699adb9da mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 23936 f3d9215b718a083354e9b9426577aafb mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 23854 69f6d783ff8345c565910877e2db4909 powerpc architecture (PowerPC) Size/MD5 checksum: 22514 550fe870f5d0cb85e2ab96c510d70127 s390 architecture (IBM S/390) Size/MD5 checksum: 22842 37f9132b2f6aae1a828405ae701a325c sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC) Size/MD5 checksum: 21020 191248685382bb6051853bba9081f012 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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