DSA-506-1 neon -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-506-1 neon -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

19 May 2004

Affected Packages:

neon

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. 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 0.19.3-2woody5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.23.9.dfsg-2 and neon_0.24.6.dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libneon* packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/neon_0.19.3-2woody5.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/neon_0.19.3-2woody5.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/neon_0.19.3.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_sparc.deb

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