Debian Security Advisory

DSA-604-1 hpsockd -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:
03 Dec 2004
Affected Packages:
hpsockd
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 11800.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0993.
More information:

"infamous41md" discovered a buffer overflow condition in hpsockd, the socks server written at Hewlett-Packard. An exploit could cause the program to crash or may have worse effect.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.14.

We recommend that you upgrade your hpsockd package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hpsockd/hpsockd_0.6.woody1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hpsockd/hpsockd_0.6.woody1.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hpsockd/hpsockd_0.6.woody1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hpsockd/hpsockd_0.6.woody1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hpsockd/hpsockd_0.6.woody1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hpsockd/hpsockd_0.6.woody1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hpsockd/hpsockd_0.6.woody1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hpsockd/hpsockd_0.6.woody1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hpsockd/hpsockd_0.6.woody1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hpsockd/hpsockd_0.6.woody1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hpsockd/hpsockd_0.6.woody1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hpsockd/hpsockd_0.6.woody1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hpsockd/hpsockd_0.6.woody1_sparc.deb

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