Debian Security Advisory
DSA-129-1 uucp -- remote denial of service
- Date Reported:
- 27 May 2002
- Affected Packages:
- uucp
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 4910.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-0912. - More information:
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We have received reports that in.uucpd, an authentication agent in the uucp package, does not properly terminate certain long input strings. This has been corrected in uucp package version 1.06.1-11potato3 for Debian 2.2 (potato) and in version 1.06.1-18 for the upcoming (woody) release.
We recommend you upgrade your uucp package immediately.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/uucp_1.06.1-11potato3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/uucp_1.06.1-11potato3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/uucp_1.06.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/uucp_1.06.1-11potato3.dsc
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/uucp_1.06.1-11potato3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/uucp_1.06.1-11potato3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/uucp_1.06.1-11potato3_i386.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/uucp_1.06.1-11potato3_m68k.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/uucp_1.06.1-11potato3_powerpc.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/uucp_1.06.1-11potato3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.