Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1368-1 librpcsecgss -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
04 Sep 2007
Affected Packages:
librpcsecgss
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-3999.
More information:

It was discovered that a buffer overflow of the library for secure RPC communication over the rpcsec_gss protocol allows the execution of arbitrary code.

The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain librpcsecgss.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 0.14-2etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your librpcsecgss packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss_0.14-2etch1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss_0.14-2etch1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss_0.14.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_arm.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_ia64.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss-dev_0.14-2etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libr/librpcsecgss/librpcsecgss3_0.14-2etch1_sparc.deb

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