Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2615-1 libupnp4 -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

01 Feb 2013

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 699459.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-5958, CVE-2012-5959, CVE-2012-5960, CVE-2012-5961, CVE-2012-5962, CVE-2012-5963, CVE-2012-5964, CVE-2012-5965.

More information:

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows were discovered in libupnp4, a library used for handling the Universal Plug and Play protocol. HD Moore from Rapid7 discovered that SSDP queries where not correctly handled by the unique_service_name() function.

An attacker sending carefully crafted SSDP queries to a daemon built on libupnp4 could generate a buffer overflow, overwriting the stack, leading to the daemon crash and possible remote code execution.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.0~svn20100507-1+squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.0~svn20100507-1.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.0~svn20100507-1.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libupnp4 packages.