Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1440-1 inotify-tools -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
28 Dec 2007
Affected Packages:
inotify-tools
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 443913.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-5037.
More information:

It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the filename processing of the inotify-tools, a command-line interface to inotify, may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. This only affects the internal library and none of the frontend tools shipped in Debian.

The old stable distribution (sarge) does not provide inotify-tools.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.3-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.11-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your inotify-tools package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (stable)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.3-2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.3.orig.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.3-2.diff.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.3-2_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.3-2_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.3-2_arm.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.3-2_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.3-2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.3-2_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.3-2_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.3-2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.3-2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.3-2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.3-2_sparc.deb

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