Debian Security Advisory
DSA-487-1 neon -- format string
- Date Reported:
- 16 Apr 2004
- Affected Packages:
- neon
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10136.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0179. - More information:
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Multiple format string vulnerabilities were discovered in neon, an HTTP and WebDAV client library. These vulnerabilities could potentially be exploited by a malicious WebDAV server to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process using libneon.
For the current stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 0.19.3-2woody3.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 0.24.5-1.
We recommend that you update your neon package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/neon_0.19.3-2woody3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/neon_0.19.3-2woody3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/neon_0.19.3.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/neon_0.19.3-2woody3.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody3_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.