Debian: New mt-daapd packages fix several vulnerabilities
Summary
Insufficient validation and bounds checking of the Authorization:
HTTP header enables a heap buffer overflow, potentially enabling
the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2007-5825
Format string vulnerabilities in debug logging within the
authentication of XML-RPC requests could enable the execution of
arbitrary code.
CVE-2008-1771
An integer overflow weakness in the handling of HTTP POST
variables could allow a heap buffer overflow and potentially
arbitrary code execution.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.2.4+r1376-1.1+etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.9~r1696-1.3.
We recommend that you upgrade your mt-daapd package.
Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 765 a303c40811df75fd395c28485d038ceb
Size/MD5 checksum: 8929 a565dacb5773182a44b367b6c78a0da8
Size/MD5 checksum: 995301 c427c26e93914290b7cd615835ea333a
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 637280 653700658a98af964ca5fabf5ff4086b
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
Size/MD5 checksum: 610844 9297976354240c5a75b2c3636fe0746d
arm architecture (ARM)
Size/MD5 checksum: 593834 58ccb78ac69ba94fff63580d19abec49
hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)
Size/MD5 checksum: 628712 9424c2f2edb35321b05a59d7ef37b0d8
i386 architecture (Intel ia32)
Size/MD5 checksum: 598872 3ffa9c84c8fac6542b0ee05ff0bb26a0
ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)
Size/MD5 checksum: 680088 e8135a0ad1e70a95e4d0d6eafe475303
mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))
Size/MD5 checksum: 620220 156fd7841ebbf48977ffbc5dd1df35e6
mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))
Size/MD5 checksum: 615246 fcc02299e63b17c6d29621769a79efd8
powerpc architecture (PowerPC)
Size/MD5 checksum: 620258 959237abd21efeb7b486bb092ad81d5e
s390 architecture (IBM S/390)
Size/MD5 checksum: 623142 a74cec69d272a1ba4fe9d232b992b572
sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)
Size/MD5 checksum: 595390 6eb767c6fb3d4a12448928f31754f0c5
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org