DSA-678-1 netkit-rwho -- missing input validation

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-678-1 netkit-rwho -- missing input validation

Date Reported:

11 Feb 2005

Affected Packages:

netkit-rwho

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-1180.

More information:

"Vlad902" discovered a vulnerability in the rwhod program that can be used to crash the listening process. The broadcasting one is unaffected. This vulnerability only affects little endian architectures (i.e. on Debian: alpha, arm, ia64, i386, mipsel, and s390).

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.17-4woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.17-8.

We recommend that you upgrade your rwhod package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/netkit-rwho_0.17-4woody2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/netkit-rwho_0.17-4woody2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/netkit-rwho_0.17.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_sparc.deb

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