Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1686-1 no-ip -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
14 Dec 2008
Affected Packages:
no-ip
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 506179.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-5297.
More information:

A buffer overflow has been discovered in the HTTP parser of the No-IP.com Dynamic DNS update client, which may result in the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.1-4+etch1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (lenny) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.7-11.

We recommend that you upgrade your no-ip package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1.orig.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1.dsc
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_arm.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/no-ip/no-ip_2.1.1-4+etch1_sparc.deb

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