DSA-598-1 yardradius -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-598-1 yardradius -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

25 Nov 2004

Affected Packages:

yardradius

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 278384.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0987.

More information:

Max Vozeler noticed that yardradius, the YARD radius authentication and accounting server, contained a stack overflow similar to the one from radiusd which is referenced as CAN-2001-0534. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary code as root.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.20-2woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.20-15.

We recommend that you upgrade your yardradius package immediately.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yardradius/yardradius_1.0.20-2woody1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yardradius/yardradius_1.0.20-2woody1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yardradius/yardradius_1.0.20.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yardradius/yardradius_1.0.20-2woody1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yardradius/yardradius_1.0.20-2woody1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yardradius/yardradius_1.0.20-2woody1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yardradius/yardradius_1.0.20-2woody1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yardradius/yardradius_1.0.20-2woody1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yardradius/yardradius_1.0.20-2woody1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yardradius/yardradius_1.0.20-2woody1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yardradius/yardradius_1.0.20-2woody1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yardradius/yardradius_1.0.20-2woody1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yardradius/yardradius_1.0.20-2woody1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/y/yardradius/yardradius_1.0.20-2woody1_sparc.deb

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