DSA 713-1: New junkbuster packages fix several vulnerabilities
Posted on: 04/21/2005 01:18 PM
New junkbuster packages are available for Debian GNU/Linux
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 713-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 21st, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Package : junkbuster Vulnerability : several Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-1108 CAN-2005-1109
Several bugs have been found in junkbuster, a HTTP proxy and filter. The Common Vulnerability and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities:
CAN-2005-1108
James Ranson discovered that an attacker can modify the referrer setting with a carefully crafted URL by accidently overwriting a global variable.
CAN-2005-1109
Tavis Ormandy from the Gentoo Security Team discovered several heap corruptions due to inconsistent use of an internal function that can crash the daemon or possibly lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.2-0.2woody1.
The unstable distribution (sid) doesn't contain the junkbuster package anymore.
We recommend that you upgrade your junkbuster package.
Upgrade Instructions ---------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody ---------------------------------