Debian Security Advisory

DSA-315-1 gnocatan -- buffer overflows, denial of service

Date Reported:

11 Jun 2003

Affected Packages:

gnocatan

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CAN-2003-0433.

More information:

Bas Wijnen discovered that the gnocatan server is vulnerable to several buffer overflows which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the server system.

For the stable distribution (woody), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.1-5woody2.

The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain a gnocatan package.

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

We recommend that you update your gnocatan package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan_0.6.1-5woody2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan_0.6.1-5woody2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan_0.6.1.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-data_0.6.1-5woody2_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-help_0.6.1-5woody2_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-client_0.6.1-5woody2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-server_0.6.1-5woody2_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-client_0.6.1-5woody2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-server_0.6.1-5woody2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-client_0.6.1-5woody2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-server_0.6.1-5woody2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-client_0.6.1-5woody2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-server_0.6.1-5woody2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-client_0.6.1-5woody2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-server_0.6.1-5woody2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-client_0.6.1-5woody2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-server_0.6.1-5woody2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-client_0.6.1-5woody2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-server_0.6.1-5woody2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-client_0.6.1-5woody2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-server_0.6.1-5woody2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-client_0.6.1-5woody2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-server_0.6.1-5woody2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-client_0.6.1-5woody2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-server_0.6.1-5woody2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-client_0.6.1-5woody2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnocatan/gnocatan-server_0.6.1-5woody2_sparc.deb

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