Debian Security Advisory
DSA-506-1 neon -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 19 May 2004
- Affected Packages:
- neon
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10385.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0398. - More information:
-
Stefan Esser discovered a problem in neon, an HTTP and WebDAV client library. User input is copied into variables not large enough for all cases. This can lead to an overflow of a static heap variable.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.19.3-2woody5.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.23.9.dfsg-2 and neon_0.24.6.dfsg-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libneon* packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/neon_0.19.3-2woody5.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/neon_0.19.3-2woody5.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/neon_0.19.3.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/neon_0.19.3-2woody5.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon-dev_0.19.3-2woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/neon/libneon19_0.19.3-2woody5_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.