Debian Security Advisory

DSA-375-1 node -- buffer overflow, format string

Date Reported:

29 Aug 2003

Affected Packages:

node

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CAN-2003-0707, CAN-2003-0708.

More information:

Morgan alias SM6TKY discovered and fixed several security related problems in LinuxNode, an Amateur Packet Radio Node program. The buffer overflow he discovered can be used to gain unauthorised root access and can be remotely triggered.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.0a-2woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your node packages immediately.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/node/node_0.3.0a-2woody1_sparc.deb

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