SuSE: 2003-046: sane Security Update
Summary
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SUSE Security Announcement
Package: sane
Announcement-ID: SuSE-SA:2003:046
Date: Tuesday, Nov 18th 2003 14:30 MEST
Affected products: 7.3, 8.0, 8.1
SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0
Vulnerability Type: remote denial-of-service
Severity (1-10): 5
SUSE default package: yes
Cross References: CAN-2003-0773
CAN-2003-0774
CAN-2003-0775
CAN-2003-0776
CAN-2003-0777
CAN-2003-0778
Content of this advisory:
1) security vulnerability resolved: several security vulnerabilities
problem description, discussion, solution and upgrade information
2) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds:
- ethereal
- KDE
- KDE wrong file permissions
- ircd
- mc
- apache1/2
- proftpd
- gdm2
- epic/epic4
3) standard appendix (further information)
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1) problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information
The sane (Scanner Access Now Easy) package provides access to scanners either locally or remotely over the network.
Several bugs in sane were fixed to avoid remote denial-of-service
attacks. These attacks can even be executed if the remote attacker
is not allowed to access the sane server by not listing the attackers IP in the file sane.conf.
Per default saned only accepts local requests.
As a temporary workaround saned can be started via xinetd or inetd in
conjunction with tcpwrapper to restrict remote access.
Please download the update package for your distribution and verify its
integrity by the methods listed in section 3) of this announcement.
Then, install the package using the command "rpm -Fhv file.rpm" to apply
the update.
Our maintenance customers are being notified individually. The packages
are being offered to install from the maintenance web.
Intel i386 Platform:
SuSE-8.1:
5b728bc3ac724be64aa736dbebe2aa23
patch rpm(s):
77ab2574c35513136076c4b2a77e9cbf
source rpm(s):
6ddec5bdadb07f985a08e592cd4c68b3
SuSE-8.0:
9438d81c7bd8b41dee948696f138c771
patch rpm(s):
f461a294ab7d3638bf4b3e83f3910143
source rpm(s):
ea888fa0c4e6aaf41e23caaf4f68a1d2
SuSE-7.3:
53d25817ed9c53cf6078d3794862a13e
source rpm(s):
593a886a54482c841baa0fe9d43690c6
Sparc Platform:
SuSE-7.3:
bdb7ce58c8d363a03dadc719c2421d84
source rpm(s):
4d0f4994f1fc730edfcefa2d33fe456d
PPC Power PC Platform:
SuSE-7.3:
83643306b81f0e89d4a5c96001a65ea5
source rpm(s):
fa277cfb3ec68aedb24de2ff2d13673f
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2) Pending vulnerabilities in SUSE Distributions and Workarounds:
- ethereal
A new official version of ethereal, a network traffic analyzer, was
released to fix various security-related problems.
An update package is currently being tested and will be released
as soon as possible.
- KDE
New KDE packages are currently being tested. These packages fixes
several vulnerabilities:
+ remote root compromise (CAN-2003-0690)
+ weak cookies (CAN-2003-0692)
+ SSL man-in-the-middle attack
+ information leak through HTML-referrer (CAN-2003-0459)
The packages will be release as soon as testing is finished.
- KDE wrong file permissions
Due to a missing synchronisation during SuSE Linux 8.2 beta-testing
phase some configuration files of KDE on SuSE Linux 8.2 are world-
writeable. Please check the files in /etc/opt/kde3/share/config
and add an appropritae line to /etc/permissions.local, like:
/etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kmailrc root.root 0644
/etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kioslaverc root.root 0644
/etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdeglobals root.root 0644
Set the new permission with 'chkstat -set /etc/permissions.local'
as root.
- ircd
The Internet Relay Chat daemon is vulnerable to a remote denial-of- service attack. The attack can be triggered by irc clients directly
connected to the daemon.
Update packages are available on our FTP servers.
- mc
By using a special combination of links in archive-files it is possible
to execute arbitrary commands while mc tries to open it in its VFS.
The packages are currently tested and will be release as soon as
possible.
- apache1/2
The widely used HTTP server apache has several security vulnerabilities:
- locally exploitable buffer overflow in the regular expression code.
The attacker must be able to modify .htaccess or httpd.conf.
(affects: mod_alias and mod_rewrite)
- under some circumstances mod_cgid will output its data to the
wrong client (affects: apache2)
- proftpd
A remote denial-of-service attack in the FTP server proftpd was fixed.
The denial-of-service can be triggered by a one-byte buffer overflow
with a fixed character. Therefore the bug can not be abused by an
attacker to execute arbitrary code. If the binary is compiled with
version 3.x of gcc this bug may not even lead to denial-of-service
condition due to stack alignment.
Update packages are available on our FTP servers.
- gdm2
Two remote denial-of-service attacks were fixed in GDM.
Update packages are available on our FTP servers.
- epic/epic4
The well known IRC client epic can probably be exploited remotely by
a malicious server.
Update packages are available on our FTP servers.
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3) standard appendix: authenticity verification, additional information
- Package authenticity verification:
SUSE update packages are available on many mirror ftp servers all over
the world. While this service is being considered valuable and important
to the free and open source software community, many users wish to be
sure about the origin of the package and its content before installing
the package. There are two verification methods that can be used
independently from each other to prove the authenticity of a downloaded
file or rpm package:
1) md5sums as provided in the (cryptographically signed) announcement.
2) using the internal gpg signatures of the rpm package.
1) execute the command
md5sum
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