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Scientific Linux: CVE-2011-0001 Critical: Scsi-Target-Utils Remote Attack

Calendar Mar 10, 2011 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory critical remote attack important scsi-target-utils Scientific Linux
Important: scsi-target-utils security update 
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:17:45 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: scsi-target-utils on SL5.x,
 SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: scsi-target-utils security update
Issue date:	2011-03-09
CVE Names:	CVE-2011-0001

A double-free flaw was found in scsi-target-utils' tgtd daemon. A remote
attacker could trigger this flaw by sending carefully-crafted network
traffic, causing the tgtd daemon to crash. (CVE-2011-0001)

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

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
scsi-target-utils-1.0.8-0.el5_6.1.src.rpm
 i386:
scsi-target-utils-1.0.8-0.el5_6.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
scsi-target-utils-1.0.8-0.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm

SL 6.x

 SRPMS:
scsi-target-utils-1.0.4-3.el6_0.1.src.rpm
 i386:
scsi-target-utils-1.0.4-3.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
 x86_64:
scsi-target-utils-1.0.4-3.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson