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Debian: DSA 348-1 Critical: Traceroute-Nanog Integer Overflow

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Calendar Grey July 14, 2003
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traceroute-nanog, contains an integer overflow bug which could be exploited toexecute arbitrary code.

Summary

traceroute-nanog, an enhanced version of the common traceroute
program, contains an integer overflow bug which could be exploited to
execute arbitrary code. traceroute-nanog is setuid root, but drops
root privileges immediately after obtaining raw ICMP and raw IP
sockets. Thus, exploitation of this bug provides only access to these
sockets, and not root privileges.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 6.1.1-1.3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
See Debian bug #200875.

We recommend that you update your traceroute-nanog package.

Upgrade Instructions
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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 fr...

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Package: traceroute-nanog

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