Scientific Linux: CVE-2005-3183 Low Severity W3C-Libwww Buffer Overflow

Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 15:15:09 -0500
Reply-To: Connie Sieh 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Connie Sieh 
Subject: Security ERRATA for SL4 w3c-libwww i386/x86_64
Comments: To: scientific 

Synopsis: Low: w3c-libwww security and bug fix update
Issue date: 2007-05-01
CVE Names: CVE-2005-3183

Several buffer overflow flaws in w3c-libwww were found. If a client
application that uses w3c-libwww connected to a malicious HTTP server, it
could trigger an out of bounds memory access, causing the client
application to crash (CVE-2005-3183).

SRPMS:
 	w3c-libwww-5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2.src.rpm

i386:
 	w3c-libwww-5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2.i386.rpm
 	w3c-libwww-apps-5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2.i386.rpm
 	w3c-libwww-devel-5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2.i386.rpm

x86_64:
 	w3c-libwww-5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2.i386.rpm
 	w3c-libwww-5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2.x86_64.rpm
 	w3c-libwww-apps-5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2.x86_64.rpm
 	w3c-libwww-devel-5.4.0-10.1.RHEL4.2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson