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Ubuntu 11.04/10.10: USN-1156-1 Critical: tgt DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey June 21, 2011
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Mitigating tgt weaknesses in Ubuntu 11.04 and 10.10 through essential patches for heightened protection.
An attacker could send crafted input to tgt and cause it to crash or run arbitrary programs.

Summary

An attacker could send crafted input to tgt and cause it to crash or run

arbitrary programs.

Software Description:

- tgt: Linux SCSI target user-space tools

Details:

It was discovered that tgt incorrectly handled long iSCSI name strings, and

invalid PDUs. A remote attacker could exploit this to cause tgt to crash,

resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This

issue only affected Ubuntu 10.10. (CVE-2010-2221)

Emmanuel Bouillon discovered that tgt incorrectly handled certain iSCSI

logins. A remote attacker could exploit this to cause tgt to crash,

resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

(CVE-2011-0001)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical update arbitrary code application crash ubuntu tgt

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 11.04:
  tgt                             1:1.0.13-0ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 10.10:
  tgt                             1:1.0.4-1ubuntu4.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2010-2221, CVE-2011-0001

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June 21, 2011

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security advisory denial of service critical update arbitrary code application crash ubuntu tgt

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tgt/1:1.0.13-0ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tgt/1:1.0.4-1ubuntu4.1

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