Debian Security Advisory

DSA-289-1 rinetd -- incorrect memory resizing

Date Reported:

17 Apr 2003

Affected Packages:

rinetd

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CAN-2003-0212.

More information:

Sam Hocevar discovered a security problem in rinetd, an IP connection redirection server. When the connection list is full, rinetd resizes the list in order to store the new incoming connection. However, this is done improperly, resulting in a denial of service and potentially execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.61-1.1.

For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 0.52-2.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.61-2

We recommend that you upgrade your rinetd package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.52-2.1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.52-2.1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.52.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.52-2.1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.52-2.1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.52-2.1_i386.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.52-2.1_m68k.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.52-2.1_powerpc.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.52-2.1_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.61-1.1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.61-1.1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.61.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.61-1.1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.61-1.1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.61-1.1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.61-1.1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.61-1.1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.61-1.1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.61-1.1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.61-1.1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.61-1.1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.61-1.1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/rinetd/rinetd_0.61-1.1_sparc.deb

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