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From: aliz at gentoo.org (Daniel Ahlberg) Subject: GLSA: ypserv -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200210-010 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : ypserv SUMMARY : information leak DATE : 2002-10-28 14:10 UTC EXPLOIT : remote - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thorsten Kukuck discovered a problem in the ypserv program which is part of the Network Information Services (NIS). A memory leak in all versions of ypserv prior to 2.5 is remotely exploitable. When a malicious user could request a non-existing map the server will leak parts of an old domainname and mapname. SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-nds/ypserv-1.3.12 and earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge ypserv emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- aliz@...too.org - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9vUUjfT7nyhUpoZMRAv7wAJ4hQ2QqPozFTcLkIr3ddJCHwIqiOQCcC89e CW28lSsCnFemMc4lTReoiao= =IWUR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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