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Debian: DSA-1686-1 Critical: No-IP Buffer Overflow Remote Execution

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Calendar Grey December 14, 2008
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Patch applied for buffer overflow vulnerability in No-IP.com client on Debian, aimed at thwarting potential arbitrary code execution. Immediate upgrade advised.
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.

Summary


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

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

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