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Scientific Linux: CVE-2007-3999 nfs-utils-lib Critical Buffer Overflow

Calendar Sep 19, 2007 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory buffer overflow remote attack nfs-utils-lib Scientific Linux
Important: nfs-utils-lib security update 
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:46:34 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for nfs-utils-lib on SL4.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: nfs-utils-lib security update
Issue date:	2007-09-19
CVE Names:	CVE-2007-3999

Tenable Network Security discovered a stack buffer overflow flaw in the RPC
library used by nfs-utils-lib. A remote unauthenticated attacker who can
access an application linked against nfs-utils-lib could trigger this flaw
and cause the application to crash. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 it is not
possible to exploit this flaw to run arbitrary code as the overflow is
blocked by FORTIFY_SOURCE. (CVE-2007-3999)

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
nfs-utils-lib-1.0.6-8.z1.src.rpm
 i386:
nfs-utils-lib-1.0.6-8.z1.i386.rpm
nfs-utils-lib-devel-1.0.6-8.z1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
nfs-utils-lib-1.0.6-8.z1.x86_64.rpm
nfs-utils-lib-devel-1.0.6-8.z1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson