Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1138-1 cfs -- integer overflow

Date Reported:
02 Aug 2006
Affected Packages:
cfs
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 371076.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-3123.
More information:

Carlo Contavalli discovered an integer overflow in CFS, a cryptographic filesystem, which allows local users to crash the encryption daemon.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.1-15sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.1-17.

We recommend that you upgrade your cfs package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfs/cfs_1.4.1-15sarge1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfs/cfs_1.4.1-15sarge1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfs/cfs_1.4.1.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfs/cfs_1.4.1-15sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfs/cfs_1.4.1-15sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfs/cfs_1.4.1-15sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfs/cfs_1.4.1-15sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfs/cfs_1.4.1-15sarge1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfs/cfs_1.4.1-15sarge1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfs/cfs_1.4.1-15sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfs/cfs_1.4.1-15sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfs/cfs_1.4.1-15sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfs/cfs_1.4.1-15sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfs/cfs_1.4.1-15sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cfs/cfs_1.4.1-15sarge1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.