Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1230-1 l2tpns -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 08 Dec 2006
- Affected Packages:
- l2tpns
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 401742.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-5873. - More information:
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Rhys Kidd discovered a vulnerability in l2tpns, a layer 2 tunnelling protocol network server, which could be triggered by a remote user to execute arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.14-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.21-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your l2tpns package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_arm.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_ia64.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/l2tpns/l2tpns_2.0.14-1sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.