openslp, openslp-dfsg vulnerability

20 April 2011

openslp, openslp-dfsg vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 10.10
• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

Summary

An attacker could send crafted input to OpenSLP and cause it to hang.

Software Description

• openslp-dfsg - OpenSLP is an implementation of the Service Location Protocol
• openslp - OpenSLP is an implementation of the Service Location Protocol

Details

It was discovered that OpenSLP incorrectly handled certain corrupted messages. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted packet to the OpenSLP server and cause it to hang, leading to a denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 10.10

libslp1 - 1.2.1-7.7ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

libslp1 - 1.2.1-7.6ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 9.10

libslp1 - 1.2.1-7.5ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

libslp1 - 1.2.1-7.1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

libslp1 - 1.2.1-5ubuntu0.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2010-3609