Debian Security Advisory
DSA-180-1 nis -- information leak
- Date Reported:
- 21 Oct 2002
- Affected Packages:
- nis
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-1232.
- More information:
-
Thorsten Kukuck discovered a problem in the ypserv program which is part of the Network Information Services (NIS). A memory leak in all versions of ypserv prior to 2.5 is remotely exploitable. When a malicious user could request a non-existing map the server will leak parts of an old domainname and mapname.
This problem has been fixed in version 3.9-6.1 for the current stable distribution (woody), in version 3.8-2.1 for the old stable distribution (potato) and in version 3.9-6.2 for the unstable distribution (sid).
We recommend that you upgrade your nis package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.8-2.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.8-2.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.8.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.8-2.1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.8-2.1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.8-2.1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.8-2.1_i386.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.8-2.1_m68k.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.8-2.1_powerpc.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.8-2.1_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.9-6.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.9-6.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.9.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.9-6.1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.9-6.1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.9-6.1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.9-6.1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.9-6.1_ia64.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.9-6.1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.9-6.1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.9-6.1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.9-6.1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.9-6.1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.9-6.1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nis/nis_3.9-6.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.