-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1122-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze July 24th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : libnet-server-perl Vulnerability : format string Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-1127 Debian Bug : 378640 Peter Bieringer discovered that the "log" function in the Net::Server Perl module, an extensible, general perl server engine, is not safe against format string exploits. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain this package. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.87-3sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.89-1. We recommend that you upgrade your libnet-server-perl package. Upgrade Instructions - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnet-server-perl/libnet-server-perl_0.87-3sarge1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 692 9790e3935bc81150adb54a5d5a3fa692 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnet-server-perl/libnet-server-perl_0.87-3sarge1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 8220 59438319c03603473e174c61009b0d7c http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnet-server-perl/libnet-server-perl_0.87.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 69235 0b8553db414dac4c43b9f9282f8e149c Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnet-server-perl/libnet-server-perl_0.87-3sarge1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 126808 5f8a62959bae9000ec8e64a23263d072 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFExOJbW5ql+IAeqTIRAiy2AJ9Xbi7cRq7+VtTl1sZYnzKR5yMdlQCgrwGe RRVbqy68ksVHqr9tF6vf1ig= =9BkT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----