Debian Security Advisory
DSA-410-1 libnids -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 05 Jan 2004
- Affected Packages:
- libnids
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 8905.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0850. - More information:
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A vulnerability was discovered in libnids, a library used to analyze IP network traffic, whereby a carefully crafted TCP datagram could cause memory corruption and potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user executing a program which uses libnids (such as dsniff).
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.16-3woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you update your libnids package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids_1.16-3woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids_1.16-3woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids_1.16.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids_1.16-3woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.16-3woody1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-3woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.