DSA 1731-1: New ndiswrapper packages fix arbitrary code execution vulnerability

Posted by Bob on: 03/02/2009 10:15 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1731-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Steffen Joeris
March 02, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : ndiswrapper
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id : CVE-2008-4395
Debian Bugs : 504696

Anders Kaseorg discovered that ndiswrapper suffers from buffer overflows
via specially crafted wireless network traffic, due to incorrectly
handling long ESSIDs. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary
code.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.28-1+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.53-2, which was already included in the lenny release.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.53-2.

Upgrade instructions
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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 4.0 alias etch
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Debian (oldstable)
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Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper_1.28-1+etch1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 8480 5f89b53c0adefd6c3a894ea0f35f8d25
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper_1.28.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 187576 c7655d7e85df7d724be4c0ae973d957e
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper_1.28-1+etch1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 723 b38be610377feff2433069addb88bb7b

Architecture independent packages:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-common_1.28-1+etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 16556 335ac5bfd0898d13d2467005a68b1a03
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-source_1.28-1+etch1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 150532 7a09fe7069f263df9c659f519a5e5a2e

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-utils-1.9_1.28-1+etch1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 30402 3316cdad5626350a07a09830b29cb55a

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-utils-1.9_1.28-1+etch1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 30414 464e12e2751d26e6e0d810d608fde8d9

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show lt;pkggt;' and http://packages.debian.org/lt;pkggt;
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