Conectiva Linux Advisory: mcrypt

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CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 
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PACKAGE   : mcrypt
SUMMARY   : Buffer overflow and memory leak vulnerabilities
DATE      : 2003-02-05 15:36:00
ID        : CLA-2003:567
RELEVANT
RELEASES  : 7.0, 8

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DESCRIPTION
 The mcrypt package contains libmcrypt, a decryption and encryption
 library with support for various algorithms.
 
 Ilia Alshanetsky found[1] several buffer overflows vulnerabilities[2]
 in libmcrypt. These vulnerabilities basically consist of improper or
 lack of validation for some input (which in some scenarios can came
 from a local user or from a network connection).
 
 Another vulnerability[3] exists in the way libmcrypt loads algorithms
 via libtool. When different algorithms are loaded dynamically a small
 part of memory is leaked. In a persistant environment, an attacker
 can exhaust all available memory by launching repeated requests to an
 application that utilizes the mcrypt library.
 
 These vulnerabilites are fixed in libmcrypt version 2.5.5, and the
 changes were backported to mcrypt-2.4.9 in Conectiva Linux 7.0 and
 mcrypt-2.4.18 in Conectiva Linux 8. Conectiva Linux 6.0 does not ship
 the mcrypt package.


SOLUTION
 All users of the package mcrypt should upgrade.
 
 Please note that in order to complete the upgrade process, you must
 restart all running aplications that are linked against libmcrypt
 after the new packages installation. You can see a list of such
 applications using the lsof utility, as seen below:
 
 # lsof | grep libmcrypt
 
 
 REFERENCES:
 1.http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104162752401212&w=2
 2.http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0031
 3.http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0032


UPDATED PACKAGES
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/mcrypt-2.4.9-3U70_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/mcrypt-devel-2.4.9-3U70_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/mcrypt-devel-static-2.4.9-3U70_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/SRPMS/mcrypt-2.4.9-3U70_1cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/mcrypt-2.4.18-3U80_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/mcrypt-devel-2.4.18-3U80_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/mcrypt-devel-static-2.4.18-3U80_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/SRPMS/mcrypt-2.4.18-3U80_1cl.src.rpm


ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS
 Users of Conectiva Linux version 6.0 or higher may use apt to perform 
 upgrades of RPM packages:

 - run:                 apt-get update
 - after that, execute: apt-get upgrade

 Detailed instructions reagarding the use of apt and upgrade examples 
 can be found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/#apt?idioma=en


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