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Debian Security Advisory: New version of nfs-server fixes remote exploit

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 11, 1999

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:57:52 +0100
From: Wichert Akkerman <<a
href=”mailto:wichert@soil.nl”>wichert@soil.nl>
To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

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Debian Security Advisory security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/
Wichert Akkerman
November 11, 1999


The version of nfs-server that was distributed in Debian
GNU/Linux 2.1 had a buffer overflow in fh_buildpath(). It assumed
that the total length of a path would never exceed
(PATH_MAX_NAME_MAX). With a read/write exported directory people
could created longes path and cause a bufferoverflow.

This has been addressed in version 2.2beta37-1slink.1, and we
recommend you upgrade your nfs-server package immediately.

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink


This version of Debian was released only for Intel, the Motorola
680×0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/nfs-server_2.2beta37-1slink.1.diff.gz

MD5 checksum: 277c6daafd5b6f3947908a40761473d1

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/nfs-server_2.2beta37-1slink.1.dsc

MD5 checksum: c9bcdd19e29055d420e1c50dee6425d4

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/nfs-server_2.2beta37.orig.tar.gz

MD5 checksum: afe0f88c48add25f304a387ae4fb40ba

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/nfs-server_2.2beta37-1slink.1_alpha.deb

MD5 checksum: 5e9d134fcc8834e5cf6a7dedb2394f7b

Intel ia32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/nfs-server_2.2beta37-1slink.1_i386.deb

MD5 checksum: f5c4f2cc59101dc15bfc66530cb4d9e1

Motorola 680×0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-m68k/nfs-server_2.2beta37-1slink.1_m68k.deb

MD5 checksum: 672a8509a53f52d71efcde29b37780aa

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/nfs-server_2.2beta37-1slink.1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksum: c882894e79ede2c9af4d52566db59971

These files will be moved into
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/
soon.

For not yet released architectures please refer to the
appropriate directory
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/
.

– —


For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/
stable updates
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security
dists/stable/updates
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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