Debian Security Advisory

DSA-244-1 noffle -- buffer overflows

Date Reported:
27 Jan 2003
Affected Packages:
noffle
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0037.
More information:

Dan Jacobson noticed a problem in noffle, an offline news server, that leads to a segmentation fault. It is not yet clear whether this problem is exploitable. However, if it is, a remote attacker could trigger arbitrary code execution under the user that calls noffle, probably news.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-1.1.

The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain a noffle package.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your noffle package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noffle/noffle_1.0.1-1.1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noffle/noffle_1.0.1-1.1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noffle/noffle_1.0.1.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noffle/noffle_1.0.1-1.1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noffle/noffle_1.0.1-1.1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noffle/noffle_1.0.1-1.1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noffle/noffle_1.0.1-1.1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noffle/noffle_1.0.1-1.1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noffle/noffle_1.0.1-1.1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noffle/noffle_1.0.1-1.1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noffle/noffle_1.0.1-1.1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noffle/noffle_1.0.1-1.1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noffle/noffle_1.0.1-1.1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/noffle/noffle_1.0.1-1.1_sparc.deb

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