Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 15:45:40 +0100 (MET)
From: thomas@suse.de (Thomas
Biege)
SuSE Security Announcement
Package: inn <= 2.2.1
Date: Wed Nov 24 18:54:33 CET 1999
Affected SuSE versions: 5.3 – 6.3 Vulnerability Type: remote
denial-of-service attack
SuSE default package: no
Other affected systems: all unix systems using inn <= 2.2.1
A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above.
Please update as soon as possible or disable the service if you are
using this software on your SuSE Linux installation(s).
Other Linux distributions or operating systems might be affected
as well, please contact your vendor for information about this
issue.
Please note, that that we provide this information on an “as-is”
basis only. There is no warranty whatsoever and no liability for
any direct, indirect or incidental damage arising from this
information or the installation of the update package.
1. Problem Description
The Inter Net News server inn does not do proper bounds
checking.
2. Impact
The daemon could be crashed remotely by overflowing the static
buffers.
3. Solution
Update the package from our FTP server. The fixed inn package
for 6.3-AXP is included in the SuSE-AXP distribution. Our
maintainer of inn tries to build a RPM for 5.3, which will as soon
as possible be available if everything goes well.
Please verify these md5 checksums of the updates before
installing:
b37b74d4ca8e4a7a22e1e4bac620e68b inn-2.2.1-24.alpha.rpm (6.1, AXP) 51d1dd707a53eb9dc49eeac06c86e2c2 inn-2.2.1-24.i386.rpm (6.1, x86) 833f6814deefac2524cd3bac705a271d inn-2.2.1-24.i386.rpm (6.2, x86) fc4673cc8fd04dca5ff061a48e861b39 inn-2.2.1-23.i386.rpm (6.3, x86)
You can find updates on our ftp-Server:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/n1/inn-2.2.1-24.alpha.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/n1/inn-2.2.1-24.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/n1/inn-2.2.1-24.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/n1/inn-2.2.1-23.i386.rpm
or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors:
http://www.suse.de/de/support/download/ftp/inland.html
http://www.suse.de/de/support/download/ftp/ausland.html
or
http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/ftp/germ_mirrors.html
http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/ftp/int_mirrors.html
Our webpage for patches:
http://www.suse.de/de/support/download/updates/index.html
or
http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/updates/index.html
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http://www.suse.de/security
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