DSA-507-1 cadaver -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-507-1 cadaver -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

19 May 2004

Affected Packages:

cadaver

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10385.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0398.

More information:

Stefan Esser discovered a problem in neon, an HTTP and WebDAV client library, which is also present in cadaver, a command-line client for WebDAV server. User input is copied into variables not large enough for all cases. This can lead to an overflow of a static heap variable.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.18.0-1woody3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.22.1-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your cadaver package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cadaver/cadaver_0.18.0-1woody3.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cadaver/cadaver_0.18.0-1woody3.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cadaver/cadaver_0.18.0.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cadaver/cadaver_0.18.0-1woody3_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cadaver/cadaver_0.18.0-1woody3_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cadaver/cadaver_0.18.0-1woody3_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cadaver/cadaver_0.18.0-1woody3_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cadaver/cadaver_0.18.0-1woody3_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cadaver/cadaver_0.18.0-1woody3_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cadaver/cadaver_0.18.0-1woody3_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cadaver/cadaver_0.18.0-1woody3_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cadaver/cadaver_0.18.0-1woody3_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cadaver/cadaver_0.18.0-1woody3_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cadaver/cadaver_0.18.0-1woody3_sparc.deb

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