Gentoo Linux Advisories: mpg123, teapop

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 1, 2003

GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200309-17


PACKAGE : mpg123
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
DATE : 2003-09-30 14:32 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
GENTOO BUG # : 26787
CVE : CAN-2003-0577

DESCRIPTION

mpg123 contains a heap based buffer overflow that would allow an
remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victims
machine.

SOLUTION

it is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
media-sound/mpg123 upgrade to a fixed version.

make sure that the version to be installed is either one of
0.59r-r3 (stable) or 0.59s-r1 (masked).

emerge sync
emerge mpg123 -p
emerge mpg123
emerge clean


aliz@gentoo.org – GnuPG key is
available at http://dev.gentoo.org/~aliz



GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200309-18


PACKAGE : teapop
SUMMARY : sql injection
DATE : 2003-09-30 20:52 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
GENTOO BUG # : 26730
CVE : CAN-2003-0515

DESCRIPTION

teapop suffers from a sql injection in the postgresql and mysql
authentication module.

SOLUTION

it is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-mail/teapop upgrade to a fixed version.

make sure that the version to be installed is atleast 0.3.7.

emerge sync
emerge teapop -p
emerge teapop
emerge clean


aliz@gentoo.org – GnuPG key is
available at http://dev.gentoo.org/~aliz


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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