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Debian 4.0 DSA 1314-1 Critical: Open-Iscsi Denial of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey June 29, 2007
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Several security flaws in open-iscsi uncovered by Debian DSA 1314-1 necessitate immediate action to avert service disruption.
Several local and remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in open-iscsi, a transport-independent iSCSI implementation

Summary


Olaf Kirch discovered that due to a programming error access to the
management interface socket was insufficiently protected, which allows
denial of service.

CVE-2007-3100

Olaf Kirch discovered that access to a semaphore used in the logging
code was insufficiently protected, allowing denial of service.

The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't include open-iscsi.

For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed
in version 2.0.730-1etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.865-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your open-iscsi packages.


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 ...

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