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UNIRAS Brief - 251/05 - Gentoo - Two Security Advisories [GLSA 200504-02,03]
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UNIRAS (UK Govt CERT) Briefing Notice - 251/05 dated 04.04.05 Time: 15:05
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Title
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Gentoo - Two Security Advisories:
1. Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws: Buffer overflow on message display [GLSA 200504-02]
2. Dnsmasq: Poisoning and Denial of Service vulnerabilities [GLSA 200504-03]
Detail
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Security Advisory summaries:
1. Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws contain a vulnerability that can be
triggered when displaying messages with specially crafted attachments.
2. Dnsmasq does not properly detect that DNS replies received do not
correspond to any DNS query that was sent. Rob Holland of the Gentoo
Linux Security Audit team also discovered two off-by-one buffer
overflows that could crash DHCP lease files parsing.
Security Advisory content follows:
1.
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200504-02
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: Normal
Title: Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws: Buffer overflow on message
display
Date: April 02, 2005
Bugs: #86541
ID: 200504-02
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Synopsis
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Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws contain a vulnerability that can be
triggered when displaying messages with specially crafted attachments.
Background
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Sylpheed is a lightweight email client and newsreader. Sylpheed-claws
is a 'bleeding edge' version of Sylpheed.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 mail-client/sylpheed < 1.0.4 >= 1.0.4
2 mail-client/sylpheed-claws < 1.0.4 >= 1.0.4
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2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures.
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Description
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Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws fail to properly handle messages containing
attachments with MIME-encoded filenames.
Impact
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An attacker can send a malicious email message which, when displayed,
would cause the program to crash, potentially allowing the execution of
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the software.
Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
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All Sylpheed users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/sylpheed-1.0.4"
All Sylpheed-claws users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/sylpheed-claws-1.0.4"
References
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[ 1 ] Sylpheed ChangeLog
http://sylpheed.good-day.net/#changes
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200504-02.xml
Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@xxxxxxxxxx or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).
The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200504-03
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Severity: Low
Title: Dnsmasq: Poisoning and Denial of Service vulnerabilities
Date: April 04, 2005
Bugs: #86718
ID: 200504-03
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Synopsis
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Dnsmasq is vulnerable to DNS cache poisoning attacks and a potential
Denial of Service from the local network.
Background
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Dnsmasq is a lightweight and easily-configurable DNS forwarder and DHCP
server.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-dns/dnsmasq < 2.22 >= 2.22
Description
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Dnsmasq does not properly detect that DNS replies received do not
correspond to any DNS query that was sent. Rob Holland of the Gentoo
Linux Security Audit team also discovered two off-by-one buffer
overflows that could crash DHCP lease files parsing.
Impact
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A remote attacker could send malicious answers to insert arbitrary DNS
data into the Dnsmasq cache. These attacks would in turn help an
attacker to perform man-in-the-middle and site impersonation attacks.
The buffer overflows might allow an attacker on the local network to
crash Dnsmasq upon restart.
Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
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All Dnsmasq users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-dns/dnsmasq-2.22"
References
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[ 1 ] Dnsmasq Changelog
http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/CHANGELOG
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200504-03.xml
Concerns?
=========
Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@xxxxxxxxxx or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
=======
Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).
The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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