Debian Security Advisory
DSA-678-1 netkit-rwho -- missing input validation
- Date Reported:
- 11 Feb 2005
- Affected Packages:
- netkit-rwho
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-1180.
- More information:
-
"Vlad902" discovered a vulnerability in the rwhod program that can be used to crash the listening process. The broadcasting one is unaffected. This vulnerability only affects little endian architectures (i.e. on Debian: alpha, arm, ia64, i386, mipsel, and s390).
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.17-4woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.17-8.
We recommend that you upgrade your rwhod package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/netkit-rwho_0.17-4woody2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/netkit-rwho_0.17-4woody2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/netkit-rwho_0.17.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/netkit-rwho_0.17-4woody2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwho_0.17-4woody2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-rwho/rwhod_0.17-4woody2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.