Debian: New tcpreen packages fix denial of service
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1443-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff January 03, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : tcpreen Vulnerability : buffer overflows Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-6562 It was discovered that several buffer overflows in tcpreen, a tool for monitoring a TCP connection may lead to denial of service. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.3-0.1etch1. The old stable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain tcpreen. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.3-0.3. We recommend that you upgrade your tcpreen 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 4.0 (stable) - -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 579 83c33a7131f3191048aba4b610e292ca Size/MD5 checksum: 232290 5600968d012f8353e4e0797d4c330393 Size/MD5 checksum: 26016 b1af9b7571c037713b123f33e5e79721 alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) Size/MD5 checksum: 44064 5dc26f1233f232305b7c8d2e2e2cb4ac amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) Size/MD5 checksum: 42494 5cc27918abcac4a19eb661894005e963 arm architecture (ARM) Size/MD5 checksum: 39378 10c0d8bd70154755e372318e39f10266 hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) Size/MD5 checksum: 43848 7039041a01ddcd25e74cfb6c025d3e6c i386 architecture (Intel ia32) Size/MD5 checksum: 40274 bcd58bac3ae59767861a9fee6653e882 ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) Size/MD5 checksum: 48438 85ac614d61faa5a66d7e14efd5490daf mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 43610 9fb5942fc0d95e87c2a8e3964c30b8d7 mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 43620 e9b81ad8b5e0f05501c264b5efd6ed7f powerpc architecture (PowerPC) Size/MD5 checksum: 40848 43b0d65c0a8445d7d5880f87a5fbb005 s390 architecture (IBM S/390) Size/MD5 checksum: 41020 e4d80551b7ffe958f9ad7103b2973087 sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC) Size/MD5 checksum: 39366 e897ed3d4b1d0b85225f88f8a0cc0990 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