Debian Security Advisory

DSA-412-1 nd -- buffer overflows

Date Reported:
05 Jan 2004
Affected Packages:
nd
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0014.
More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in nd, a command-line WebDAV interface, whereby long strings received from the remote server could overflow fixed-length buffers. This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker in control of a malicious WebDAV server to execute arbitrary code if the server was accessed by a vulnerable version of nd.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.5.0-1woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.2-1.

We recommend that you update your nd package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nd/nd_0.5.0-1woody1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nd/nd_0.5.0-1woody1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nd/nd_0.5.0.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nd/nd_0.5.0-1woody1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nd/nd_0.5.0-1woody1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nd/nd_0.5.0-1woody1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nd/nd_0.5.0-1woody1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nd/nd_0.5.0-1woody1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nd/nd_0.5.0-1woody1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nd/nd_0.5.0-1woody1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nd/nd_0.5.0-1woody1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nd/nd_0.5.0-1woody1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nd/nd_0.5.0-1woody1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nd/nd_0.5.0-1woody1_sparc.deb

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