Debian: New mt-daapd packages fix several vulnerabilities
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1597-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Devin Carraway June 12, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : mt-daapd Vulnerability : multiple vulnerabilities Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-5824 CVE-2007-5825 CVE-2008-1771 Debian Bug : 459961 476241 Three vulnerabilities have been discovered in the mt-daapd DAAP audio server (also known as the Firefly Media Server). The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following three problems: CVE-2007-5824 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 - -------------------------------Source archives: 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 apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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