Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1686-1 no-ip -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

14 Dec 2008

Affected Packages:

no-ip

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 506179.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-5297.

More information:

A buffer overflow has been discovered in the HTTP parser of the No-IP.com Dynamic DNS update client, which may result in the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.1-4+etch1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (lenny) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.7-11.

We recommend that you upgrade your no-ip package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1.dsc
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_sparc.deb

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