Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1368-1 librpcsecgss -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

04 Sep 2007

Affected Packages:

librpcsecgss

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-3999.

More information:

It was discovered that a buffer overflow of the library for secure RPC communication over the rpcsec_gss protocol allows the execution of arbitrary code.

The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain librpcsecgss.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 0.14-2etch1.

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

We recommend that you upgrade your librpcsecgss packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss_0.14-2etch1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss_0.14-2etch1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss_0.14.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_arm.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_ia64.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_sparc.deb

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