[Full-Disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 494-1] New ident2 packages fix buffer overflow

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 494-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman
April 21st, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

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Package : ident2
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Ids : CAN-2004-0408

Jack <[email protected]> discovered a buffer overflow in
ident2, an implementation of the ident protocol (RFC1413), where a
buffer in the child_service function was slightly too small to hold
all of the data which could be written into it. This vulnerability
could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with
the privileges of the ident2 daemon (by default, the "identd" user).

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 1.03-3woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your ident2 package.

Upgrade Instructions

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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody

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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ident2/ident2_1.03-3woody1.dsc
  Size/MD5 checksum:      567 5d7dc1d91ad0402f3a1d5187316b1e35
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ident2/ident2_1.03-3woody1.diff.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:     4337 8268cae2c5da094df3f0f0946254077c
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ident2/ident2_1.03.orig.tar.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:    38851 390a49dbaf636dad0d403ab2930bf1ae

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ident2/ident2_1.03-3woody1_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    18886 c33eb1df5912b54bd02804cd97e8c55b

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ident2/ident2_1.03-3woody1_arm.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    17296 3b2f3534dc0e381390298d260ab2b1fb

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ident2/ident2_1.03-3woody1_i386.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    17360 4852458a942869e25ada58e21cbd9c79

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ident2/ident2_1.03-3woody1_ia64.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    20980 9a2d4173e0027822b840129bc85c9243

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ident2/ident2_1.03-3woody1_hppa.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    18322 c807f75a9b6feaebe6343f8e67f05a10

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ident2/ident2_1.03-3woody1_m68k.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    16988 b31160d7b3b65d644617f20099983b1f

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ident2/ident2_1.03-3woody1_mips.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    18016 7defb4d4f143d5665ed1037cd881864b

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ident2/ident2_1.03-3woody1_mipsel.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    18010 1d2e0e55ea87dfe1060c9ed016cd1162

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ident2/ident2_1.03-3woody1_powerpc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    17420 96a3f097e14e383dee72c0f484f4dbf6

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ident2/ident2_1.03-3woody1_s390.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    18052 59b1bbbacaf402f41fa7bfca3004ac05

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ident2/ident2_1.03-3woody1_sparc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    19744 f69cb4c265466d23b852cbab06f06c4b

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/&lt;pkg&gt;
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