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security advisorydenial of servicecriticalUbuntu 8.04 LTS: USN-845-1 Critical: Pan Denial Of Service
Pavel Polischouk discovered that Pan incorrectly handled certain data structures. If a user were tricked into viewing malicious nntp data, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. [More...]. ==========================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-845-1 October 08, 2009 pan vulnerability CVE-2008-2363 ========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: pan 0.132-2ubuntu2.1 In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Pavel Polischouk discovered that Pan incorrectly handled certain data structures. If a user were tricked into viewing malicious nntp data, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Updated packages for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: Source archives: Size/MD5: 20545 6d36e3b972652c124c93eff41dc5695b Size/MD5: 877 593b70e1321f89cc1d3d79aaa0fcd431 Size/MD5: 2069718 0999ea52f8d4187ac7c8fd416067b0e7 amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon): Size/MD5: 821136 10e791382ac078f206571407b9aca5b8 i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD): Size/MD5: 792564 5f4a69d8ce3dc342e20893020d1b2b2f lpia architecture (Low Power Intel Architecture): Size/MD5: 815322 dff1b50f04af376b9476f5f9150b0b97 powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5): Size/MD5: 864758 9c63e15bd64326b9483ba916c089a00d sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC): Size/MD5: 885412f0311151ff6ab621f97bbd6909253173 . The Ubuntu Security Advisory USN-846-2 highlights a critical flaw that enables remote code execution along with possible service interruption threats.. Pan Vulnerability, Denial Of Service, Remote Code Execution, Ubuntu Security Notice. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 08, 2009
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security advisorycritical issuebuffer overflowSlackware 12.x SSA:2008-217-02 Critical: Pan Buffer Overflow Issue
New pan packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix a security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database: . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] pan (SSA:2008-217-02) New pan packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix a security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2363 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/pan-0.133-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz: Upgraded to pan-0.133. This update fixes a buffer overflow in pan-0.128 through pan-0.132 when processing .nzb files. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2363 (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading directly from ftp.slackware.com. Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-) Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you. Updated package for Slackware 12.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/pan-0.133-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz Updated package for Slackware 12.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/patches/packages/pan-0.133-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz Updated package for Slackware -current: MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 12.0 package: 1099a432fa576b1284156efebe2a5daf pan-0.133-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz Slackware 12.1 package: 323a29587a49606dd77089670a8da830 pan-0.133-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz Slackware -currentpackage: b53a793c8c12c848457cf4fdccea4186 pan-0.133-i486-1.tgz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg pan-0.133-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz +-----+ . Upgrade pan packages on Slackware 12.x to boost security and tackle buffer overflow issues. Follow these steps for a smooth update process. Slackware Security, Pan Update, Security Patches. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 04, 2008
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