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Critical Update: scsi-target-utils CVE-2010-0743 Remote Crash Vulnerability

Calendar Apr 20, 2010 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory remote exploit update notification important update scsi-target-utils scientific linux
Important: scsi-target-utils security update 
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:42:41 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: scsi-target-utils on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: scsi-target-utils security update
Issue date:	2010-04-20
CVE Names:	CVE-2010-0743

A format string flaw was found in scsi-target-utils' tgtd daemon. A
remote attacker could trigger this flaw by sending a carefully-crafted
Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) request, causing the tgtd daemon to
crash. (CVE-2010-0743)

All runningscsi-target-utils services must be restarted for the update
to take effect.

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
scsi-target-utils-0.0-6.20091205snap.el5_5.2.src.rpm
 i386:
perl-Config-General-2.40-1.el5.noarch.rpm
scsi-target-utils-0.0-6.20091205snap.el5_5.2.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
perl-Config-General-2.40-1.el5.noarch.rpm
scsi-target-utils-0.0-6.20091205snap.el5_5.2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson