Debian Security Advisory

DSA-318-1 lyskom-server -- denial of service

Date Reported:

12 Jun 2003

Affected Packages:

lyskom-server

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CAN-2003-0366.

More information:

Calle Dybedahl discovered a bug in lyskom-server which could result in a denial of service where an unauthenticated user could cause the server to become unresponsive as it processes a large query.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.6-1woody1.

The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain a lyskom-server package.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem is fixed in version 2.0.7-2.

We recommend that you update your lyskom-server package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lyskom-server/lyskom-server_2.0.6-1woody1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lyskom-server/lyskom-server_2.0.6-1woody1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lyskom-server/lyskom-server_2.0.6.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lyskom-server/lyskom-server_2.0.6-1woody1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lyskom-server/lyskom-server_2.0.6-1woody1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lyskom-server/lyskom-server_2.0.6-1woody1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lyskom-server/lyskom-server_2.0.6-1woody1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lyskom-server/lyskom-server_2.0.6-1woody1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lyskom-server/lyskom-server_2.0.6-1woody1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lyskom-server/lyskom-server_2.0.6-1woody1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lyskom-server/lyskom-server_2.0.6-1woody1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lyskom-server/lyskom-server_2.0.6-1woody1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lyskom-server/lyskom-server_2.0.6-1woody1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lyskom-server/lyskom-server_2.0.6-1woody1_sparc.deb

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