Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1230-1 l2tpns -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
08 Dec 2006
Affected Packages:
l2tpns
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 401742.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-5873.
More information:

Rhys Kidd discovered a vulnerability in l2tpns, a layer 2 tunnelling protocol network server, which could be triggered by a remote user to execute arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.14-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.21-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your l2tpns package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_arm.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_sparc.deb

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