Debian Security Advisory
DSA-923-1 dropbear -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 19 Dec 2005
- Affected Packages:
- dropbear
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-4178.
- More information:
-
A buffer overflow has been discovered in dropbear, a lightweight SSH2 server and client, that may allow authenticated users to execute arbitrary code as the server user (usually root).
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain dropbear packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.45-2sarge0.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.47-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your dropbear package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dropbear/dropbear_0.45-2sarge0.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dropbear/dropbear_0.45-2sarge0.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dropbear/dropbear_0.45.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dropbear/dropbear_0.45-2sarge0.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dropbear/dropbear_0.45-2sarge0_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dropbear/dropbear_0.45-2sarge0_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dropbear/dropbear_0.45-2sarge0_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dropbear/dropbear_0.45-2sarge0_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dropbear/dropbear_0.45-2sarge0_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dropbear/dropbear_0.45-2sarge0_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dropbear/dropbear_0.45-2sarge0_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dropbear/dropbear_0.45-2sarge0_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dropbear/dropbear_0.45-2sarge0_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dropbear/dropbear_0.45-2sarge0_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dropbear/dropbear_0.45-2sarge0_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dropbear/dropbear_0.45-2sarge0_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.