[SECURITY] [DSA 410-1] New libnids packages fix buffer overflow

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 410-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman
January 5th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

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Package : libnids
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Ids : CAN-2003-0850

A vulnerability was discovered in libnids, a library used to analyze
IP network traffic, whereby a carefully crafted TCP datagram could
cause memory corruption and potentially execute arbitrary code with
the privileges of the user executing a program which uses libnids
(such as dsniff).

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 1.16-3woody1.

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

We recommend that you update your libnids 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/libn/libnids/libnids_1.16-3woody1.dsc
  Size/MD5 checksum:      603 c9e8989f8cb7d6706d512f8c34519443
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids_1.16-3woody1.diff.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:     7053 5db55f605de05b18238c8d8f1e0d5eaa
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids_1.16.orig.tar.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:    72309 95497093d0de330be12ddc658ad7decc

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    53924 e26ca5f38905360771ed53e406cfd551
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    21948 05c1ba0882f274c0e91b366158c3aba6

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_arm.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    49500 2861aab1d3425667206a39fe1a18236e
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_arm.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    18684 b56d1950c95bb179f70216b1a2d18659

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_i386.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    47424 0a0ee5573c7f849a0c4b8a6c60c6a080
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_i386.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    17074 9b0358382397ba1d8b0485dede78892f

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_ia64.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    59322 7a024fb46ce17e1ee6f3c0e201627c42
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_ia64.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    28432 8934206dbb404dc64d4c87d9255d5638

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_hppa.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    52302 711d6f7c949a60984ee7d30fb8894160
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_hppa.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    20930 62ad021f6c7767cc8a4454096ccd1d1d

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_m68k.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    46716 feaeeac9a1f2762313d8e59f313373e1
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_m68k.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    16674 4cb2fd1cdbbf5900474f4329bab3bfbc

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_mips.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    52226 e0abaa180510965d91faed6b3cf14aae
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_mips.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    18658 731f3f124e0f50dd0f2ad12edddacebc

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_mipsel.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    52404 588dc4b4cc9526f43dbe758ac42a5fa7
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_mipsel.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    18894 f138fa9a58029d8d4045214f689f433a

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_powerpc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    50712 8d474420d3857da2dcf1e513e8c3a05f
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_powerpc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    18544 6c2ee0a24d579e058ec3d33f6da60c7b

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_s390.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    48488 bc1a016c012276feca11552206bad715
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_s390.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    18762 b4d3b1bc6431b57a3fc9e90bde10b439

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_sparc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    49894 72473f1e07a0e37d5ba5acdd7c6b7d42
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_sparc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    21560 661ca1cb95c69e40cca1fc6373ae39a8

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

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