full-disclosure - GLSA: setiathome (200304-03)

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20030409105806.28D4433A81@mail1.tamperd.net>
From: aliz at gentoo.org (Daniel Ahlberg)
Subject: GLSA:  setiathome (200304-03)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------
GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200304-03
- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------

          PACKAGE : setiathome
          SUMMARY : buffer overflow
             DATE : 2003-04-09 10:57 UTC
          EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <3.08
    FIXED VERSION : >=3.08
              CVE : 

- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------

- From advisory:

"There is a bufferoverflow in the server responds handler. Sending an 
overly large string followed by a newline ('\n') character to the 
client will trigger this overflow. This has been tested with various 
versions of the client. All versions are presumed to have this flaw in 
some form."

Read the full advisory at:
http://spoor12.edup.tudelft.nl/

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
app-sci/setiathome upgrade to setiathome-3.08 as follows:

emerge sync
emerge setiathome
emerge clean

- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------
aliz@...too.org - GnuPG key is available at http://cvs.gentoo.org/~aliz
- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQE+k/y4fT7nyhUpoZMRAgi7AJ4hG59plYUfRAafSKbRmeI++rT5ZACgs+Vk
6Pqp0YFy+4mqb7Am7f4h/PQ=
=IlMz
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----