Debian: 'nis' Remote information leak
Summary
Thorsten Kukuck discovered a problem in the ypserv program which is
part of the Network Information Services (NIS). A memory leak in all
versions of ypserv prior to 2.5 is remotely exploitable. When a
malicious user could request a non-existing map the server will leak
parts of an old domainname and mapname.
This problem has been fixed in version 3.9-6.1 for the current stable
distribution (woody), in version 3.8-2.1 for the old stable
distribution (potato) and in version 3.9-6.2 for the unstable
distribution (sid).
We recommend that you upgrade your nis package.
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 2.2 alias potato
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Source archives:
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ARM architecture:
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Intel IA-32 architecture:
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Motorola 680x0 architecture:
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PowerPC architecture:
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Sun Sparc architecture:
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Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:
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Alpha architecture:
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ARM architecture:
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Intel IA-32 architecture:
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Intel IA-64 architecture:
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HP Precision architecture:
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Motorola 680x0 architecture:
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Big endian MIPS architecture:
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PowerPC architecture:
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IBM S/390 architecture:
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Sun Sparc architecture:
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These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.