DSA-592-1 ez-ipupdate -- format string

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-592-1 ez-ipupdate -- format string

Date Reported:

12 Nov 2004

Affected Packages:

ez-ipupdate

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0980.

More information:

Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a format string vulnerability in ez-ipupdate, a client for many dynamic DNS services. This problem can only be exploited if ez-ipupdate is running in daemon mode (most likely) with many but not all service types.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.11b5-1woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.11b8-8.

We recommend that you upgrade your ez-ipupdate package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ez-ipupdate/ez-ipupdate_3.0.11b5-1woody2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ez-ipupdate/ez-ipupdate_3.0.11b5-1woody2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ez-ipupdate/ez-ipupdate_3.0.11b5.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ez-ipupdate/ez-ipupdate_3.0.11b5-1woody2_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ez-ipupdate/ez-ipupdate_3.0.11b5-1woody2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ez-ipupdate/ez-ipupdate_3.0.11b5-1woody2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ez-ipupdate/ez-ipupdate_3.0.11b5-1woody2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ez-ipupdate/ez-ipupdate_3.0.11b5-1woody2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ez-ipupdate/ez-ipupdate_3.0.11b5-1woody2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ez-ipupdate/ez-ipupdate_3.0.11b5-1woody2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ez-ipupdate/ez-ipupdate_3.0.11b5-1woody2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ez-ipupdate/ez-ipupdate_3.0.11b5-1woody2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ez-ipupdate/ez-ipupdate_3.0.11b5-1woody2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ez-ipupdate/ez-ipupdate_3.0.11b5-1woody2_sparc.deb

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